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3, 4, 5 Warrender Park Crescent, Marchmont, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.938 / 55°56'16"N

Longitude: -3.2026 / 3°12'9"W

OS Eastings: 324975

OS Northings: 672308

OS Grid: NT249723

Mapcode National: GBR 8LL.SW

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.S04Q

Plus Code: 9C7RWQQW+5X

Entry Name: 3, 4, 5 Warrender Park Crescent, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 3-5 (Inclusive Nos) Warrender Park Crescent Incl Railings

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371676

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30609

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371676

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1880. 4-storey with basement, 8-bay tenement, forming part of terrace. Lightly stugged grey ashlar with polished dressings. Base course string course at 3rd floor; architraved round-arched doorways with recessed polished granite columns; pannelled 2-leaf doors; plate glass fanlights; chamfered reveals.

N ENTRANCE elevation: steps up to doorways in 2nd, 4th and 6th bays; single windows dormerheads to 3rd floor windows; carved panel set above doorway in 4th bay. Full-height canted windows with pyramidal roofs and wrought-iron finials in 1st and 5th bays. Bipartite windows to each floor in 3rd and 8th bays; pedimented dormerheads with inset paterae and round-arched panels to 3rd floor windows. Former doorway (now window), detailed as above, at ground in 7th bay; single windows above; pedimented dormerhead to 3rd floor window. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stacks between 2nd and 3rd bays, and 6th and 7th bays, corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans; gabletted skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

RAILINGS: cast-iron boundary railings to street and steps.

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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