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Latitude: 55.9379 / 55°56'16"N
Longitude: -3.2009 / 3°12'3"W
OS Eastings: 325079
OS Northings: 672297
OS Grid: NT250722
Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.3X
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.S0YS
Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+4J
Entry Name: 127 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 127 Warrender Park Road
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371706
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30636
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371706
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Possibly Thomas Gibson, circa 1880. 4-storey, 3-bay tenement with Baronial details, forming part of terrace. Coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornices to ground floor openings; cill course at 1st floor; stirng course at 3rd floor; eaves cornice; chamfered reveals at ground and 1st floors, stop-chamfered above. S ENTRANCE elevation: doorway in 2nd (central) bay; blinded balustraded apron to 1st floor single window; single windows to 2nd and 3rd floors; pedimented dormerhead linked to wallhead stack. Full-height canted window in 3rd bay; swept and facetted pyramidal roof. Full-height bipartite windows in 1st bay; blank heraldic shield set in gablehead; stone finial, Niche set between tenements to outer left. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead and mutual stacks; gabletted skewputts.
INTERIORS: not seen 1991.
Low saddleback wall to street.
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. According to the Building News, Thomas Gibson was the architect, although Dean of Guild Court records show that other architects were involved.
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