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1 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9381 / 55°56'17"N

Longitude: -3.2008 / 3°12'2"W

OS Eastings: 325086

OS Northings: 672318

OS Grid: NT250723

Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.4V

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.S0ZM

Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+6M

Entry Name: 1 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 1 Marchmont Street

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371607

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30568

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371607

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Probablt Thomas Gibson, circa 1878. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement, forming part of terrace. Coursed orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above ground floor; corbel table at 3rd floor; eaves cornice; raised window surrounds; chamfered reveals. E ENTRANCE elevation: chamfered arisses to doorway in 3rd bay; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window flanking to right; single windows above; pedimented dormerhead with stone finial. Full-height canted windows in 2nd and 4th bays; dividing cornices; facetted pyramidal roofs; wrought-iron finials. Single windows in bay to outer left; pedimented dormerhead with stone finials. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced mutual stacks; gabletted skewputts to mutual gables. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Boundary coping to street.

Statement of Interest

This tenement forms part of the $220,000 scheme initiated by the builders W & D Macgregor for the blocks of tenements now comprising Warrender Park Crescent, Marchmont Street, Warrender Park Road, and Alvanley Terrace.

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