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Latitude: 55.9372 / 55°56'13"N
Longitude: -3.1749 / 3°10'29"W
OS Eastings: 326705
OS Northings: 672195
OS Grid: NT267721
Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.D5
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.61F9
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+V3
Entry Name: 20 Blacket Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 20 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366066
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28313
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366066
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Earlier 19th century. 2-storey symmetrical 3-bay rectangular-plan classical villa. Polished ashlar, rusticated at ground; coursed rubble to sides and rear. Base course; dividing band course; cornice and blocking course; lugged architraves to 1st floor wondows.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorcase with fluted Greek Doric columns in front of single pilasters forms base for Greek key pattern ironwork balcony to central 1st floor window; 4-panelled timber door with 3-pane fanlight; single window to first floor above and to both floors of flanking bays. Single storey corniced walls adjoining to E and W: 4-panelled door to E; square opening to W leads to piend-roofed stable converted to garage use, with 2-leafed planked door and square hatch above.
12-paned timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof. Coped wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALL: to right of driveway is low coped wall with bollards; low coped boundary wall to street.
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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