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Latitude: 55.9538 / 55°57'13"N
Longitude: -3.1112 / 3°6'40"W
OS Eastings: 330714
OS Northings: 673973
OS Grid: NT307739
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.XWJ7
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.5MR4
Plus Code: 9C7RXV3Q+GG
Entry Name: 48 Regent Street, Portobello, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 48 Regent Street
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364897
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27633
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364897
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay rectangular-planned symmetrical Gothick house, with later linking wing to right. Polished ashlar. Base course, cornice, blocking course, Tudor hoodmoulds, chamfered arrises and stop-chamfered angles.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays flanked by 4 slender Ionic columns supporting raised architrave. Deep-set panelled door at bay to centre; rectangular fanlight above with 6 pointed-arch panes. Windows to flanking bays; window to left of linking wing.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1994.
Timber sash and case windows, 6-pane to lower half and simple Gothic small-pane pattern to upper; Tudor arched window to linking wing, with timber mullioned Gothic-style casement. Piended grey slate roof with ashlar wallhead stacks to side elevations; flat roof to linking wing.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: ashlar with coping, formerly with railings.
This finely detailed Gothick building first appears on Sutter's map of 1856. It is called Waverley Cottage.
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