We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 55.9376 / 55°56'15"N
Longitude: -3.1734 / 3°10'24"W
OS Eastings: 326800
OS Northings: 672241
OS Grid: NT268722
Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.P0
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.704Z
Plus Code: 9C7RWRQG+3M
Entry Name: 4 Blacket Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 4 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366058
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28308
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366058
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1835. 2-storey symmetrical 3-bay rectangular-plan classical house with single storey recessed wings. Channelled polished sandstone ashlar ground; stugged 1st floor; rubble to sides and rear. Base course, dividing band course, cill course, and cornice with modillions. Blocking course advanced at centre. Architraves to 1st floor windows.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorcase with fluted Greek Doric columns, paired pilasters behind, and entablature with modillioned cornice; timber 4-panelled door; geometric glazing pattern to fanlight; single window above and to both floors of flanking bays.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with corniced wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall with some iron railings to front, mutual coped rubble boundary walls with No 2 and No 6.
Dr Benjamin Bell of Hunthill, an eminent Edinburgh surgeon and farmer, speculated on the potential for development in the lands of Newington. In 1806, aware of the demand for countrified dwellings near the city, he advertised his intention to sell 58 plots of land within his 8.5 acres. On his death in the same year his son George Bell, also a surgeon, inherited the land and, in 1825, commissioned James Gillespie Graham to design a plan for new streets within the grounds of Newington House, bounded by the back garden walls of Minto Street, Salisbury Road, East Mayfield and Dalkeith Road. Feus were offered for sale and Blacket Place began to take shape, the houses possibly being built speculatively by one builder or building company. Security was an important feature of the development, with Gothic gates, the octagonal piers of which survive, locked at night and single storey lodges at the entrances from Minto Street and Dalkeith Road.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
