Old stories & fresh starts
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What A former commercial unit converted into a three-bedroom home
Where Comely Bank, Edinburgh
Architect David Blaikie Architects
Structural engineer McColl Associates
MANDARIN STONE
BATH • BRISTOL • CAMBRIDGE • CARDIFF CHELTENHAM • EXETER • FULHAM ROAD • MARLOW MONMOUTH • PETERSFIELD • PRIMROSE HILL TUNBRIDGE WELLS • WEYBRIDGE • WILMSLOW
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If the walls of this property in Edinburgh’s Comely Bank could talk, they would have salacious tales to tell. And perhaps, in a way, they can: all you need to do is dig around behind the plasterboard to discover two eyebrow-raising objects that wink suggestively to the flat’s former life as a so-called gentlemen’s club. “We found a Venetian mask and a whip beneath the floor,” laughs the architect David Blaikie, who was hired
