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Moss Cottage, 45 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9536 / 55°57'12"N

Longitude: -3.1099 / 3°6'35"W

OS Eastings: 330794

OS Northings: 673948

OS Grid: NT307739

Mapcode National: GBR 2C.XWVM

Mapcode Global: WH6SN.6MC9

Plus Code: 9C7RXV3R+C3

Entry Name: Moss Cottage, 45 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 43 and 45 Marlborough Street (Raefield and Moss Cottage)

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364454

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27329

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364454

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Early 19th century with later additions and alterations. Single storey, 5-bay (total) pair of houses. Channelled polished ashlar; rubble side elevation to No 43, harled and blank side elevation to No 45. Base course, cornice and blocking course.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled doors to 2nd and 4th bays; plate glass rectangular fanlights above each. Windows to remaining bays.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: window to outer of left and at ground and 1st floor of extension.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey extension with squared render gable end, lit to right at 1st floor; and later single storey harled projection. 2-storey extension to rear of No 45 with wooden painted canted window with stop-chamfered arrises.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, flat roofed single storey addition; slate mansard roof to extension to rear of No 45. Droved ashlar and coped gablehead and mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: lined render (No 43); harled and coped (No 45).

Statement of Interest

House shown on this site on Wood's map, set back off the road at a comparable distance, but not separated into 2 dwellings. By 1856, on Sutter's map, the site was split into 2; however, the division of the principal elevation would suggest that 2 doors were intended. The extension to the rear of No 43 would appear to be contemporary with, or soon after, the main building (on the evidence of the rubble wallface). The extension to No 45 however appears to date to later to late 19th century.

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