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111, 113, 115 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9353 / 55°56'7"N

Longitude: -3.1938 / 3°11'37"W

OS Eastings: 325518

OS Northings: 672006

OS Grid: NT255720

Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.KV

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X29Q

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+4F

Entry Name: 111, 113, 115 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 111-115 (Odd Nos) Marchmont Road

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371375

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30448

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371375

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

John C Hay, 1880-82. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement, part of Scottish 17th century style terrace. squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornice above ground floor; string course at 3rd floor; roll-moulded door surrounds; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 doorways to centre with single windows flanking. Full-height canted windows to outer left and right, corbelled to square at gablehead; dividing cornices; outer left bay crowstepped; Jacobean finials to gable to outer right; masonic motifs in paterae in gableheads. Single windows to central bays; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in semi-circular pedimented dormerheads and flanking central shouldered wallhead stack. Central framed and pedimented datestone above 1st floor.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; central stack with bracketted cornice; corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans; scrolled skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 77-109 and 117-129 (odd nos) Marchmont Road and 2-10 (inc) Beaufort Road. The narrow windows flanking the entrances were designed to light small piano recesses off the parlours of the ground floor tenements (see Cant). Designed for the Strathearn Building Society.

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