Description

Dated 1881. 4-storey corner tenement on sloping site with Scots Baronial details; shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked pink sandstone with contrasting polished dressings. Cornice over shopfronts; corbel table at 3rd floor, stepped down and machicolated to form hoods to 2nd floor windows in bays flanking corner; string course at 3rd floor.

S (WARRENDER PARK ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay including angle bay. Plate glass shopfronts (painted stonework) at ground, pedimented doorway at angle. 3-storey canted window, corbelled to square at crowstepped gablehead; pedimented blind window set in gablehead; gablet crowsteps and skewputts. Advanced and canopied bipartite window at 1st floor in 3rd bay; bipartite windows above; semi-circular pediment. Bipartite windows in 1st bay; crowstepped pediment linked to wallhead stack. Advanced single windows at 1st floor in 2nd and 4th bays; single windows above; pediments to 3rd floor windows. Pedimented cipher panel (GM) at 1st floor between 4th and angle bays.

E (MARCHMONT ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Shopfronts stepped down from left to right on sloping site; main door at centre; panelled door plate glass fanlight. 2-light angled bay above shops to outer right; facetted pyramidal roof; iron finial. Bipartite windows in 1st bay; crowstepped gable with corbelled stack above. Bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors in 3rd bay; semi-circular pediment to single window at 3rd floor. Single windows in remianing bays; pediments to 3rd floor windows. Pedimented date panel (1881) between angle and 1st bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stacks to S and E and coped mutual stacks.

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 '39-43 (odd nos) Warrender Park Road & 22-30 Marchmont Road'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805849

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