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Mecca State Social Club, 204-208 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Leith, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9749 / 55°58'29"N

Longitude: -3.1779 / 3°10'40"W

OS Eastings: 326589

OS Northings: 676391

OS Grid: NT265763

Mapcode National: GBR 8R5.SN

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.42ZX

Plus Code: 9C7RXRFC+XV

Entry Name: Mecca State Social Club, 204-208 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 204-208 (Even Nos) Great Junction Street Mecca State Social Club, Known As 205

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364688

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27487

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Mecca State Social Club

ID on this website: 200364688

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Cinema Bingo hall

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Description

James Miller & Partners, 1938. Large rectangular Modern Movement former cinema, 2-storey flat-roofed front block with curved corner entrance and tower, warehouse-like auditorium to rear. Grey harl and white rendered breeze blocks, rear hall red brick.

Front block: 3-bay 3-storey office building to NW with shops at ground floor; centre bay rendered and breaking eaves in off-set parapet, long vertical strip window now blocked; bay to left with advertising hoarding; to right bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floor with triangulated rendered mullions. Narrow rendered tower with long vertical triangulated motif to SE, pyramidal roof with green glazed pantiles. SE corner defined by 2-storey 3-bay curved rendered entrance, 5 doorways at ground floor, 3 single windows above. Single bay fronting Mill Lane (?) rendered with off-set parapet breaking eaves and vertical strip window. NW elevation with irregular windows and large advertising hoarding.

Cinema block: harled to SE; NW elevation facing Water of Leith red brick with large blocked windows to basement.

Metal casement windows. Corrugated sheeting to hall.

Interior: vestibule with Art Deco detailing; main auditorium with vertical strip motifs to side walls, stage wall decorated with Art Deco detailing.

Statement of Interest

Designed by the Edinburgh-based housebuilders, James Miller & Pertners, this building was opened as the State Cinema on 19 December 1938 and was described as a 'luxury supercinema' which also included four shops, two billiard saloons and a skittle alley. The postal address of the property is apparently 205, though it falls on the even-numbered side of the road.

Unusual purpose-built multi-use leisure development that also incorporated several shops, two billiard halls, amd a skittle alley. Multi-use expressed through varied architectural elements in Art Deco style.

References and notes updated as part of the Cinemas Thematic Study 2007-08.

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