26/12/2021
Next door to the café Royal, the Guildford is another outstanding Victorian pub. The Guildford started life as a shop in the 1840s. In 1898, it was fitted out as a lavish pub with an elegant classical revival facade and a magnificent richly decorated Victorian Rococo interior with ornate cornices and an elaborate Jacobean painted ceiling. The owner at the time was James Dodds, who was also the proprietor of the beehive Inn in the Grassmarket, and the architect was Robert MacFarlane Cameron.
