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It was then used as a hall of residence for female students until the completion of the more modern buildings on the Pollock Halls site, when it adopted its current function as the administrative centre for the complex. A sympathetic internal restoration was completed post 2000.
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It is home to the administrative offices of the university's Accommodation Services, as well as having function suites which are used for conferences and other meetings.
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Bird and lizard carvings on the mantlepiece in St Trinneans Room
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of publishers. It features pepper-pot turrets and a tower with
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The building (including its boundary walls) has been
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Scottish baronial
Edinburgh
Scotland
Coordinates
55°56′24″N 3°10′16″W / 55.94004°N 3.17123°W / 55.94004; -3.17123
University of Edinburgh
John Lessels
Listed Building
LB28619
baronial style
Pollock Halls of Residence
University of Edinburgh
John Lessels
Thomas Nelson family
corbelled-out
bartizans
cap-house
Croft House
Thomas Bonnar
Red Cross
World War I
St Trinnean's School for Girls
World War II
St Trinian's School
Ronald Searle
Air Raid Precautions
Home Guard
category A listed
The rear of St Leonard's Hall

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