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Latitude: 55.9371 / 55°56'13"N
Longitude: -3.1752 / 3°10'30"W
OS Eastings: 326683
OS Northings: 672184
OS Grid: NT266721
Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.B6
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.617C
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPF+RW
Entry Name: 24 Blacket Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 22 and 24 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366068
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28314
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 24 Blacket Place
ID on this website: 200366068
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Earlier 19th century, before 1833. 2-storey symmetrical 6-bay rectangular-plan pair of classical houses. Polished sandstone ashlar, rubble to sides and rear. Base course; dividing band course; cornice and blocking course; windows architraved, 1st floor windows corniced.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 central bays advanced; double doorcase with fluted Greek Doric columns; 4-panelled timber doors with 2 glass panels; fanlights with rectilinear glazing pattern above each; single windows to 1st floor above and to both floors of other bays. Adjoining single storey wall to E contains pedestrian doorway; to W, single storey wing linking with No 26 contains pair of garage doors.
12-paned timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with corniced mutual and wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: portions of low coped original boundary wall to street survive; bootscraper; coped mutual boundary wall with No 26.
One of the first houses to be built in Blacket Place. Dr Benjamin Bell of Hunthill, an eminent Edinburgh surgeon and farmer, had 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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