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Latitude: 55.9374 / 55°56'14"N
Longitude: -3.1743 / 3°10'27"W
OS Eastings: 326738
OS Northings: 672212
OS Grid: NT267722
Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.H3
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.61N5
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+W7
Entry Name: 16 Blacket Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 14 and 16 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366064
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28311
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 16 Blacket Place
ID on this website: 200366064
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Earlier - mid 19th century. 2-storey symmetrical 6-bay rectangular- plan classical villa. Polished sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground; coursed stugged sandstone rubble to sides and rear. Base course; dividing band course; cornice and blocking course; lugged architraves to1st floor windows.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 central bays advanced paired doorcases with fluted Greek Doric columns; single pilasters behind outer columns; 4-panelled timber door; plate glass fanlight above; single windows to first floor above and to both floors of flanking bays; adjoining single storey wings corniced; wing to E contains garage door; wing to W contains a garage door between 2 pedestrian doors.
Windows: 12-pane timber sash and case to No 14, 2-pane timber sash and case to No 16. Grey slate piended roof with corniced mutual and wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall to street with apertures for bootscrapers.
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.
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