Description

Possibly Thomas P Marwick, dated 1878. 4-storey corner tenement with Scots Baronial details; shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings. Cornice above shops; corbel table at 3rd floor, stepped down to form panels to 2nd floor windows in 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th bays to N and 2nd and 3rd bays to W; string course at 3rd floor; crowstepped gables; chamfered reveals.

W (MARCHMONT ROAD) ELEVATION: 7-bay including angle bay and 2 recessed bays to outer right. Shopfronts at ground (stall riser removed and replaced with small-pane glazing to shop at outer left); panelled maindoor in 3rd bay from left; 4-pane fanlight; pierced balustrade above 2 shops to outer right. Advanced doorway in angle bay to outer left; corbels to pierced balustrade with flanking ball-finialled dies; 2-leaf panelled doors; advanced tripartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors; advanced bipartite window at 3rd floor; single window in stone-finialled gablehead; 2-stage bartizans flanking advanced windows at 2nd and 3rd floors; fishscale conical roofs. Bipartite windows in 5th and 7th bays; pedimented dormerheads. Single windows in remaining bays; semi-circular to 4th and 6th bays; 2nd and 3rd bays linked above eaves by gable; date panel set in gablehead. Single lights at 1st and 2nd floors between 1st and 2nd bays. Rounded angle to outer right.

N (MARCHMONT CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Altered shopfronts at ground. Bipartite windows in 1st bay; pediment to 3rd floor window. Single windows in 2nd bay. Single windows at 1st and 2nd floors in 3rd bay. 2nd and 3rd bays linked above eaves by gablet-crowstepped gable. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; 2 rendered and lined gablehead stacks; rendered and lined wallhead stack; scroll skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

Statement of Interest

The period between 1860 and 1900 saw significant residential expansion in the city of Edinburgh with construction of a number of residential tenement suburbs.

The tenement suburb of Marchmont developed between circa 1876 and 1914

following the feuing of the Warrender family estate (land south of the Meadows).

Marchmont's development can be viewed in two distinct phases, with the first phase, prior to 1900, largely following the plan laid out by David Bryce of 1869. This phase, which saw the construction of streets in the north and east of the site, is characterised by the individual nature of the work by builders and architects who frequently developed only one or two feus at a time. These tenements were built predominantly in the baronial style following guidelines set down in the 1869 feu charter. In the second phase, after 1900, the baronial style recedes and elevations become more uniform.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '1-9 (odd nos) Marchmont Road & 1 Marchmont Crescent'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804689

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