Description

1832. 2 storey, 3 bay symmetrical classical house. Cream sandstone polished ashlar; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; architraved windows; dividing band course; cill course to 1st floor windows; cornice; blocking course raised at terminal dies.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway; panelled door; 2 pane fanlight; Ionic columns to pedimented doorpiece; single window to 1st floor above; single windows to flanking bays to both floors.

12 pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND PEDESTRIAN GATE: high coped rubble wall to street; central corniced pedestrian gateway.

Statement of Interest

The house was owned in the 1890s by the publisher William Nelson; it is near the site of the Parkside works of which he was proprietor. The Blacket development was executed from 1825 onwards by eminent Edinburgh surgeons Benjamin and George Bell according to plans by James Gillespie Graham. Blacket Avenue was primarily to serve as access to Newington House, the mansion Benjamin Bell built for himself, which was demolished in 1966: No 15 is one of very few houses built on the Avenue as a result.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793037

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6