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20, 24 Rosebank Cottages, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9447 / 55°56'40"N

Longitude: -3.2112 / 3°12'40"W

OS Eastings: 324450

OS Northings: 673067

OS Grid: NT244730

Mapcode National: GBR 8KJ.1H

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.NV23

Plus Code: 9C7RWQVQ+VG

Entry Name: 20, 24 Rosebank Cottages, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 1-36 (Inclusive Nos) Rosebank Cottages, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 29 April 1977

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369808

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29656

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200369808

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Alexander MacGregor, 1860. 3 rows of 2-storey symmetrical flatted cottages with gardens front and back. 3 12-bay rows to S (Nos 1-8, 9-16, 17-24); dividing central avenue, with footpaths to the individual houses; 9-bay row to S (Nos 25-30); 6-bay row behind to SW (Nos 31-34); 3-bay row at rear (Nos 35-6). Squared and snecked sandstone; bull-faced sandstone quoins. Lugged architraves to openings; pillar-box fanlights to doors.

NE (FRONT) ELEVATIONS: panelled timber door to centre of each 3-bay section at ground; single windows to both floors of flanking bays and to centre of 1st floor (much reduced to Nos 25-30); no windows to centre of 1st floor above Nos 3 and 4.

SW (REAR) ELEVATIONS: external stair at right angles to terrace, to 1st floor balcony serve 6-bay sections; panelled timber door at either end of balcony flanked by single windows; small single-light window between door and innermost window; single windows to ground floor below; additional small single-light window in line with one aligned above.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; raised stone skews, returned at bottom edges. Shouldered, corniced stacks to rows to N; coped and rendered stacks to rows to S; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative geometric-patterned ironwork handrails to steps and balconies.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary walls bordering gardens.

Statement of Interest

Developed by Sir James Gowans and 'built for the better class of mechanics and others'. Each flat was self-contained with a living room, two bedrooms, a scullery and water closet 'having a spring by which the opening of the door flushes the pan.'

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