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62, 64, 66 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9369 / 55°56'12"N

Longitude: -3.1931 / 3°11'35"W

OS Eastings: 325563

OS Northings: 672185

OS Grid: NT255721

Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.P8

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X1MH

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+QP

Entry Name: 62, 64, 66 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 62-66 (Even Nos) Marchmont Crescent

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371364

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30437

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371364

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Edward Calvert, 1881. 4-storey, nearly symmetrical 5-bay Baronial style tenement, part of curved terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course at 1st floor; corbel table at 4th floor; raised window surrounds; stop-chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central roll-moulded doorway; similar doorway to inner left and right, each flanked to inside by bipartite window; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Full-height canted window to outer left, corbelled to square at 4th floor, with tripartite window, narrow lights to returns, crowstepped gable, decorative carved inset, and stone finial. Similar canted window to outer right, except pedimented gable. Bipartite windows at 1st flor and above in bay to centre, with crowstepped gable at 4th floor. Single windows in remaining bays, with pedimented dormerhead at 4th floor to inner left and crowstepped dormerhead to inner right.

Plate glass sash and case windows; 4-pane to main lights of canted windows. Grey slate roof; 2 corniced and coped wallhead stacks; moulded cans; stylized skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 32-60 and 68-104 (enven nos) Marchmont Crescent. Nos 62-66 were designed for Smith & Co, Builders, as were the adjacent nos 56-60 (see separate listing).

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