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Latitude: 55.9392 / 55°56'21"N
Longitude: -3.1977 / 3°11'51"W
OS Eastings: 325280
OS Northings: 672438
OS Grid: NT252724
Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.RG
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VZGB
Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ2+MW
Entry Name: 23 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 23 Warrender Park Terrace and 2 & 4 Spottiswoode Street
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371724
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30652
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371724
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Edward Calvert, 1883. 5-storey tenement with 5th storey as mansard attic; baronial; corner tower. Squared and snecked pinkish sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course at 1st floor to N, stepped up from 1st to 2nd floor to W; corbel table at 4th floor to N; chamfered reveals: panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. N WARRENDER PARK TERRACE elevation: 3-bay excluding corner tower to outer right. Architraved doorway with recessed polished granite colonnettes and foliate capitals between 2nd and 3rd bays; relieving arch; decorative ciphered panel above at 2nd floor. Single windows at 1st and 2nd bays; crowstepped dormerhead linking bays. Single windows in 3rd bay; semi-circular dormerhead to 4th floor.
CORNER TOWER: 5-stage; 3 lights to each stage; dividing cornice above ground floor; corbel table above 2nd floor; eaves cornice; candle-snuffer roof with lead finial.
W SPOTTISWOODE STREET elevation: 3-bay; 1st bay advanced with rounded angel to return; roll-moulded doorway flanked to right by single window in 1st bay; single windows above; crowstepped dormerhead linked to wallhead stack. Roll-moulded doorway in 2nd bay; single windows above; crowstepped dormerhead. Full-height canted window corbelled to square at 4th floor in bay to outer right; tripartite window with single lights to returns at 4th floor; stone finial to gablehead above. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack to N; 1 corniced wallhead stack and 1 coped and rendered stack to W; coped mutual stacks; scroll skewputs to bay to outer right to W; scroll-bracketted skewputts elsewhere.
INTERIORS: not seen 1991.
Boundary coping to streets with some original railings remaining.
Edward Calvert both designed and owned this property.
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