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Latitude: 55.9349 / 55°56'5"N
Longitude: -3.2229 / 3°13'22"W
OS Eastings: 323701
OS Northings: 671985
OS Grid: NT237719
Mapcode National: GBR 8GN.N0
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.G3J3
Plus Code: 9C7RWQMG+WR
Entry Name: 28A Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 28 and 28A Polwarth Terrace
Listing Date: 3 February 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364483
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27349
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364483
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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