Description

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1828. Mirrored pair of rectangular-planned, classical houses, 2-storey with half-basement, 6-bay pair, one of a group of three such semidetached houses in street. Polished ashlar to ground and 1st floor, channelled at ground; droved ashlar at basement, and to recessed flanking extensions; rubble to side elevations and rear. Band course between ground level and floor, also between ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice and blocking course; coping to flanking extensions.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4 steps with original cast-iron handrails to deep-set panelled Edinburgh doors to outer bays; rectangular radial fanlights and windows at 1st floor above. Windows to each floor of intermediate bays. Single window to each of flanking extensions, with door to outer.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994. Bays to centre, 1st floor, blank. Later lying-paned conservatory to No 9; map indicates extension to bay sat centre (seen on Sutter's map, 1856).

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piend and platformed slate roof; monoroof to single storey extension to SE. Rendered and coped mutual at front and rear stacks, and as wallhead stacks to side elevations; sandstone and coped truncated wallhead stacks to extreme rear of side elevations.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping, formerly with railings to front.

Statement of Interest

No 9 has been stonecleaned. From Wood's map of 1824, these houses were the only ones not built on the SW side of West Brighton Crescent.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17812212

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2