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Latitude: 55.9511 / 55°57'4"N
Longitude: -3.1189 / 3°7'7"W
OS Eastings: 330228
OS Northings: 673685
OS Grid: NT302736
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y183
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.2P35
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2J+CF
Entry Name: 5 West Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 West Brighton Crescent
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365072
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27754
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365072
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
John Baxter, circa 1825 with later alterations. Single storey with basement, 3-bay with recesses bay to left, classical house within group of similar houses. Polished ashlar to ground, droved ashlar to basement; harled to NW and rear elevations. Band course between basement and ground; moulded string course at lintel height; cornice and blocking course; segmental-arched recesses to openings.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 ashlar steps with cast-iron handrails to panelled door with plate glass rectangular fanlight above to centre; windows to flanking bays (segmental-arched recesses cement rendered) and at bay to right of basement. Bay to left at basement now altered to create double door garage. Window to ground of recessed bay to left; glazed modern door to basement.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994; no extensions.
12-pane timber sash and case windows at ground of principal elevation; 9-pane to bay to right, basement; modern swing-pane windows to rear. Slate piended roof; rendered and coped wallhead stacks to front and rear of side elevations.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with polished ashlar coping to front, formerly with railings, now broken to left as access to garage; tall rubble and brick garden walls to rear.
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