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Latitude: 55.9469 / 55°56'49"N
Longitude: -3.222 / 3°13'19"W
OS Eastings: 323781
OS Northings: 673330
OS Grid: NT237733
Mapcode National: GBR 8GH.VP
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.GSYC
Plus Code: 9C7RWQWH+Q6
Entry Name: 21 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1-31 (Odd Nos) Coates Gardens, Including Railings
Listing Date: 25 February 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366716
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28565
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 21 Coates Gardens
ID on this website: 200366716
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
John Chesser, 1871-1876. 2-storey, attic and basement balustraded terrace of classically detailed canted bay houses. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved at basement. Base course; band course, corniced at canted bays, to ground floor; string course to 1st floor; banded eaves course; cornice; balustrade (modern rendering at Nos 1, 3 and 31); alternate broad (above canted bays) and narrow dormers. Doorpieces comprising consoled cornice, pilastered, keystoned depressed arch opening containing panelled timber door flanked by narrow lights and segmental fanlight above; consoled cornice and margins to window above doorpiece; coped skews.
FRONT ELEVATION: 8 2-bay houses (some Nos slightly advanced: 15 and 17, 23 and 25, 31); door with fanlight to centre at basement, light(s) to canted bay at left, window beneath platt at right; doorpiece to bay to right at ground (except at No 31, reversed); window to 1st floor above; 3 lights to canted bay at left, 1st and 2nd floor.
2-pane timber sash and case glazing; dormers single-light and tripartite, mostly slate-hung at sides; grey slate roof, mansard-style to Nos 1-13; coped, mutual polished, channelled sandstone ashlar stacks; tall, moulded octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.
RAILINGS: spear-headed iron railings to street (set in coping) and to ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts; plain railings to steps down to basement from street, at left of each house.
Part of New Town A-Group. John Chesser was the Superintendent of Works to George Heriot's Hospital between 1858 and 1889. During his term of office large quantities of Heriot's land were feued, including land in the W of Edinburgh. Chesser was responsible for preparing ground and elevation plans for the new buildings. Opulent interiors were designed for many of the houses.
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