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Latitude: 55.9519 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.1042 / 3°6'15"W
OS Eastings: 331146
OS Northings: 673756
OS Grid: NT311737
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y4KP
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.9N2K
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2W+Q8
Entry Name: 17, 19 John Street, Portobello, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 17 and 19 John Street
Listing Date: 14 March 1989
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363892
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26977
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363892
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
Mid 19th century with later alterations, now subdivided. 2-storey, with basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house. Painted ashlar; blank side elevations of squared and snecked rubble, with ashlar quoins. Base course, cornice and blocking course; stop-chamfered arrises.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled basket-arched door in projecting ashlar porch, at centre (rise of 3 steps), plate glass fanlight, basket-arched recess with floreate columns; volute keystone at centre; raised corner-pilasters, panelled at front; cornice and balustrade-parapet; round-arched windows on return elevations. Window with chamfered margin, at 1st floor. Window at basement level in bay to right; tripartite window at ground, with corbels and central tab above; window at 1st floor with corbelled balcony and fine cast-iron balustrade. Full-height canted window at bay to left, with piended roof; diminutive corbelled cill with intricate ironwork window guard.
SE (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; mainly obscured by garden wall to rear; round-arched staircase window with engraved glass, at centre; tripartite at 1st, to right bay.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with square-rendered shouldered wallhead stacks, (NE: polished ashlar; SW: unpainted render).
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: stugged ashlar with polished copings and gatepiers. Tall rubble garden wall to rear with semicircular coping.
Date attribution above based on appearance of house. Wood's map shows something on the site in 1824 and it is possible that the house incorporates this earlier fabric. It also appears in Sutter's map of 1856.
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