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5, 6, 7 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9393 / 55°56'21"N

Longitude: -3.196 / 3°11'45"W

OS Eastings: 325387

OS Northings: 672450

OS Grid: NT253724

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.3F

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WZ87

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ3+PH

Entry Name: 5, 6, 7 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 5-7 (Incl Nos) Warrender Park Terrace Including Railings

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371718

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30646

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371718

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Probably Edward Calvert, circa 1880. 5-storey and basement with 5th storey as mansard attic, 5-bay tenement with baronial details, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked pink sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. String courses at 1st and 4th floors; corbel table above 3rd floor stepped down to 2nd floor, forming segmental-arched hood between 3rd and 4th bays; crowstepped gables; stop-chamfered reveals. N ENTRANCE elevation: roll-moulded doorways with recessed polished granite colonnettes and foliate capitals in 2nd and 4th bays; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Single windows above in 2nd bay; pedimented dormerhead at 4th floor. Doorway in 4th bay flanked to left by simpler roll-moulded doorway with panelled door and plate glass fanlight; bipartite windows above; crowstepped dormerhead to single window at 4th floor. Bipartite windows in 3rd (centre) bay; hoodmoulding at ground; crowstepped dormerhead to single window at 4th floor. Full-height advanced gabled bays with biaprtite windows and single lights to returns in bays to outer left and right; decorative dividing band courses above ground floor; dividing string courses; cornice above 3rd floor; tripartite windows at 4th floor; decorative semi-circular mouldings set in gableheads. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; 4 stacks linked and corniced at wallhead to N; coped mutual stacks; stone finials; scroll-bracketted skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings to basement and steps up to entrances.

Statement of Interest

Probably designed for the consortium of developers, Henderson, Nisbet, Bowie, and Calvert (see Cant).

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