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Latitude: 55.9331 / 55°55'59"N
Longitude: -3.173 / 3°10'22"W
OS Eastings: 326812
OS Northings: 671741
OS Grid: NT268717
Mapcode National: GBR 8SN.RM
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.749D
Plus Code: 9C7RWRMG+7Q
Entry Name: 1 Peel Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1-19 (Odd Nos) Mayfield Gardens, 1 East Mayfield and 1 Peel Terrace, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368928
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29313
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 1 Peel Terrace
ID on this website: 200368928
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Hotel building
David Cousin, 1862. 2-storey and attic with 3 storey, advanced terminal blocks, 33 bay, near symmetrical classical terrace on sloping site; basements to Nos 15, 17 and 19. Lightly stugged cream sandstone ashlar; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; cill courses to 1st and 2nd floor windows; architraves to all windows and to pedimented dormers; cornice; blocking course.
W (MAYFIELD GARDENS) ELEVATION: 3 storey block to N: 6 bay; doorways to 2 central bays; 2 leaf, boarded door to left, panelled door to right; plate glass fanlights; corbelled cornices to panelled doorpieces to S with cast-iron window guard; single windows to 1st floor above. Single windows to all floors in flanking bays. 3 storey block to S: 6 bay; doorway to left of centre; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; corbelled cornice to panelled doorpiece; single window to 1st floor above. Regular fenestration. 2 storey terrace: 7 x 3 bay houses; doorways to outer left; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; corbelled cornices to panelled doorpieces; single windows to 1st floor above; regular fenestration elsewhere.
S (PEEL TERRACE) ELEVATION: 3 storey and basement, 3 bay; central doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; corbelled cornice to panelled doorpiece; single window to 1st floor above; single windows to all floors in flanking bays.
N (EAST MAYFIELD) ELEVATION: 3 storey, 3 bay; central doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; corbelled cornice to panelled doorpiece; bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors above; carved niches to ground floor in flanking bays; single windows to 1st and 2nd floors above.
Predominantly 2-pane, some 4 pane, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended and platformed roofs; tall coped ridge stacks; central wallhead stack to N block with balustrade.
INTERIORS: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall to street; some original railings to S.
Cousin was a pupil of William Henry Playfair, with whom he worked on the National Gallery, and City Architect in the 1870s. The terrace along with Nos 31 39 Mayfield Gardens was part of a larger incomplete plan envisaged by Cousin.
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