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Latitude: 55.9545 / 55°57'16"N
Longitude: -3.1115 / 3°6'41"W
OS Eastings: 330696
OS Northings: 674052
OS Grid: NT306740
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.XWFD
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.5LML
Plus Code: 9C7RXV3Q+QC
Entry Name: 42 Bath Street, Portobello, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 42 and 44 Bath Street
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363769
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26884
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363769
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1820, with later alterations. Mirrored pair of 2-storey with basement, 6-bay terraced classical houses. Finely droved ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, rubble side elevation to No 42, harled side elevation to No 44, rubble to rear. Band course between basement and ground, cill course to 1st floor, mutuled cornice and blocking course; moulded architraves to windows at ground and 1st floor, cornice to windows at ground.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9 steps to Doric corniced colonnade doorpiece to centre with modern doors with multi-paned semicircular fanlight and windows at 1st floor above each. Windows to each floor of flanking bays, except to basement of No 44, where wooden slatted facing and doors.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: modern maps indicate external staircases.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, with terracotta ridge tiles to No 44. Rendered gable end stack to No 42, harled stack to No 44.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: squared render with coping to No 42; concrete to No 44 and incomplete. Original railings between the properties at steps.
Listed Cat. B despite alterations and condition as an integrally good classical terraced pair. The houses date from before 1824, as they appear on Wood's map, and according to W Baird, few houses were built before the 1820s, although the land had been feued and planned in 1802.
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