Description

William Hogg, 1887. 4-storey, 4-bay Scottish 17th century style tenement forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above 1st floor, stepped down to centre; corbel table at 3rd floor; chamfered reveals.

W ENTRANCE elevation: roll-moulded doorway to centre with hoodmoulding over square blank tablet above; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; incised gunloop between 1st and 2nd floors above; square blank tablet at eaves. Single windows in flanking bays; linked above eaves by crowstepped gable with gablehead stack. Full-height canted windows in bays to outer left and right; facetted pyramidal roofs with cast-iron finials. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped mutual stacks; beak skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

Low boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Designed for the builder, John Pyper, along with the neighbouring nos 55 and 59 Marchmont Road (see separate listings).

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.

William Hogg was an architect who practised in Edinburgh between 1883 and 1904. He designed a number of tenements in Marchmont between 1885 and 1887.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '57 Marchmont Road'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804849

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