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48 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9491 / 55°56'56"N

Longitude: -3.2185 / 3°13'6"W

OS Eastings: 324003

OS Northings: 673563

OS Grid: NT240735

Mapcode National: GBR 8HG.KX

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.JQLQ

Plus Code: 9C7RWQXJ+JJ

Entry Name: 48 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 36-48 (Even Nos) Palmerston Place, Including Railings

Listing Date: 27 October 1964

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369460

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29477

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200369460

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

John Chesser, 1877-1880. 3-storey with basement terrace of 2-bay houses with 3-light canted bay windows. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone ashlar at basement. Base course; cill course forming cornice at canted bays to 1st and 2nd floors; eaves course; dentilled cornice. Depressed-arch doorpiece with flanking pilasters, keystone and elaborately foliated consoled cornice.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door to centre at basement with window to left beneath entrance platt, one or more lights to canted bay to right; 6-panel timber door to doorpiece, with narrow flanking lights and depressed arch fanlight, all wood-framed; iron-framed balcony to cornice to doorpiece to No 42; single window to floors above; light to each face of canted bay at right, all floors.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof, piended at corner; mutual coped sandstone ashlar stacks and skews; tall cylindrical and moulded octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: spiked railings to ashlar steps and entrance platts and, set in coping, to street; plain railings to basement.

Statement of Interest

Part of New Town A-Group. John Chesser was the Superintendent of Works to George Heriot's Hospital between 1858 and 1889. During his term of office large quantities of Heriot's land were feued, including land in the W of Edinburgh. Chesser was responsible for preparing ground and elevation plans for the new buildings. Opulent interiors were designed for many of the houses.

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