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33 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9352 / 55°56'6"N

Longitude: -3.1729 / 3°10'22"W

OS Eastings: 326823

OS Northings: 671965

OS Grid: NT268719

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.SX

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.72BV

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+3R

Entry Name: 33 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 31 and 33 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390888

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44201

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390888

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Mid - later 19th century. 2-storey with basement symmetrical 4-bay rectangular-plan pair of classical houses. Polished sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground, droved at basement; stugged rubble to sides and rear. Base course; dividing band course; cornice; blocking course; architraved windows to 1st floor.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps up to doorcases in bays to outer left and right with fluted Doric columns in front of pilasters supporting entablature; panelled timber doors; plate glass fanlights; bipartite windows to 1st floor above; tripartite windows to both floors of intermediate bays; tripartite fenestration protected by decorative ironwork to basement. Small section of single storey wing to right contains pedestrian doorway; single storey wing adjoining No 29 to left contains 2 pedestrian doorways.

2-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof. Corniced mutual and (paired) wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary walls to street.

Statement of Interest

Dr Benjamin Bell of Hunthill, an eminent Edinburgh surgeon and farmer, speculated on the potential for development in the lands of Newington. In 1806, aware of the demand for countrified dwellings near the city, he advertised his intention to sell 58 plots of land within his 8.5 acres. On his death in the same year his son George Bell, also a surgeon, inherited the land and, in 1825, commissioned James Gillespie Graham to design a plan for new streets within the grounds of Newington House, bounded by the back garden walls of Minto Street, Salisbury Road, East Mayfield and Dalkeith Road. Feus were offered for sale and Blacket Place began to take shape, the houses possibly being built speculatively by one builder or building company. Security was an important feature of the development, with Gothic gates, the octagonal piers of which survive, locked at night and single storey lodges at the entrances from Minto Street and Dalkeith Road.

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