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Latitude: 55.9524 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.1157 / 3°6'56"W
OS Eastings: 330430
OS Northings: 673822
OS Grid: NT304738
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.XVB9
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.3NM6
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2M+WP
Entry Name: 16 Brighton Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 14 and 16 Brighton Place
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364054
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27087
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364054
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824. Mirrored pair of 2-storey 3-bay terraced, classical houses with flanking single storey (with basement, No 16) pavilions slightly set back. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled to ground; droved ashlar to pavilions and to basements; rubble NE, SW elevations and rear to both villas; bull-face rendered (brick to rear) 2-storey addition to rear of NE elevation; harled single storey addition to outer left and bay to centre, rear of No 14. Band courses between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice, blocking course; band course and coping to pavilions.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4 steps (ashlar with concrete repairs to tread, No 14; concrete to No 16) with original cast-iron handrails to deep-set panelled doors (2-leaf Edinburgh panelled door to No 14) to outer bays of each villa; rectangular fanlights and windows above each (radial to No 14; plate glass to No 16). Windows to each floor in intermediate bays. Window and door to each pavilions.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: bays to centre at 1st floor of each house blank.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; various windows to rear including 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piend and platformed roof. Rendered and coped mutual stack to front and rear; sandstone and coped wallhead stack to rear, No 14; Brick stack from wing of No 14: rendered with coping wallhead stack to rear of No 16.
INTERIORS: shutters in situ, not working; cast-iron banisters. Bowed walls to back of front rooms, ground floor to both villas. No original chimneypieces at No 14; good but heavily painted plaster cornice, to front rooms, ground and 1st floor. Timber with white marble panels chimneypiece to front room, 1st floor, No 16; border-glazed staircase window; slate floor to hall; tripartite vestibule partition and door with engraved glass.
BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping to front (now broken) of both houses. Tall rubble garden walls to rear with some brick.
The listing includes No 14A Brighton Place.
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