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28 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9349 / 55°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.2228 / 3°13'22"W

OS Eastings: 323704

OS Northings: 671992

OS Grid: NT237719

Mapcode National: GBR 8GM.PZ

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.G3K1

Plus Code: 9C7RWQMG+XV

Entry Name: 28 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 28 and 28A Polwarth Terrace

Listing Date: 3 February 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364482

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27349

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364482

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Semi-detached house

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Description

McArthy & Watson, 1896. Pair of 2-storey rectangular-plan semi-detached houses opening to basement at rear; cream squared and snecked rubble, red ashlar dressings; chamfered reveals; 1st floor cill course; ashlar mullions; timber bracketted overhanging eaves to bellcast roof; finialled ogee roofs to canted windows.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation; central single storey bowed timber entrance porch on rubble base, panelled doors between 2 multi-pane narrow windows to each side divided by carved timber colonnettes with moulded frieze and cornice above; 2-storey canted ashlar window to left breaking eaves; 2-storey canted ashlar angle window to outer right; single window at ground floor level to bay right of centre; at 1st floor level bipartite window in bay to left of centre; paired bipartite windows in bay to right of centre. Ornamental carved timber gablet ventilator with finial in central roof pitch above centre. NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey, 4-bay; central shouldered wallhead stack; 1 window to each bay and floor except 2 bipartite windows to inner bays at basement level.

NE AND SW ELEVATIONS: blank except for single ground floor windows to outer left (SW) and outer right (NE).

Mostly plate glass timber sash and case windows, bipartites at front with 4-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes; Scottish slate bellcast piend roof to front bay, front roof behind; green slate ogee roofs; 2 coped shouldered wallhead stacks to NE and SW, 1 to rear (see above); decorative cast-iron gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Low rubble wall with saddleback coping, decorative cast-iron railigns and gates (pedestrian and carriage) at No 28.

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