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5 Mayville Gardens, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Latitude: 55.978 / 55°58'40"N

Longitude: -3.2007 / 3°12'2"W

OS Eastings: 325170

OS Northings: 676762

OS Grid: NT251767

Mapcode National: GBR 8M4.5K

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.T01J

Plus Code: 9C7RXQHX+5P

Entry Name: 5 Mayville Gardens, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 1-15 (Odd Nos) and 2-16 (Even Nos) Mayville Gardens with 10 and 11 Laverockbank Road

Listing Date: 26 June 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368933

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29315

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200368933

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Forth

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Hyppolyte J Blanc, 1881. 2 facing symmetrical cottage-style terraces in cul-de sac, each composed of 4 almost mirrored pairs of 2-bay single storey houses with piend-roofed dormerheads breaking eaves at 1st floor; 2-storey L-shaped bargeboarded attached pavilions face Laverockbank Road. Snecked, stugged ashlar with droved dressings; stop-chamfered reveals to openings; stone mullioned and transomed windows (transoms removed at No 10). Bracketted overhanging eaves.

N AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS (FACING MAYVILLE GARDENS): each pair with doors to inner bays under timber-bracketted slated sloping hood; timber panelled doors (NO 3 replaced) with rectangular fanlight above. Rectangular projecting bay with slated piend roof at ground floor with 3-light window; 3-light window in gablehead above breaking eaves with piend-roofed dormer. Flanking piend-roofed canted bay at ground floor with 4-light window; 2-light window in gablehead above breaking eaves, with piended roof. Gable ends of Nos 10 and 11 Laverockbank Road - 1 window off-set at each floor; dividing course, stepped up at Nos 10 and 11 to frame decoratively carved plaque, inscribed 'Mayville Gardens;' bracketted and braced scalloped bargeboards with kingposts.

W ELEVATION (FACING LAVEROCKBANK ROAD): outer bays advanced, with 3-light windows at ground, 2-light at 1st floor; jerkin-headed gables; doors (hoods removed) at re-entrant angles. Canted 4-light window in inner bays, with 3-light window above in gablehead breaking eaves with piend-roofed dormer; all stone mullions and transoms removed at No 10.

REAR ELEVATIONS: regularly fenestrated; coursed sandstone rubble.

Plate glass in sash and case windows with mullions and transoms (replaced at No 10). Graded grey slates. Decorative terracotta ridges and finials to dormers. Coped stacks at rear wallhead, rebuilt (concrete-faced) at ridges. Some decorative rainwater hoppers to cast-iron down pipes.

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