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Latitude: 55.9488 / 55°56'55"N
Longitude: -3.218 / 3°13'4"W
OS Eastings: 324032
OS Northings: 673527
OS Grid: NT240735
Mapcode National: GBR 8HH.N0
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.JQTZ
Plus Code: 9C7RWQXJ+GQ
Entry Name: 38 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 36-48 (Even Nos) Palmerston Place, Including Railings
Listing Date: 27 October 1964
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369455
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29477
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 38 Palmerston Place
ID on this website: 200369455
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
John Chesser, 1877-1880. 3-storey with basement terrace of 2-bay houses with 3-light canted bay windows. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone ashlar at basement. Base course; cill course forming cornice at canted bays to 1st and 2nd floors; eaves course; dentilled cornice. Depressed-arch doorpiece with flanking pilasters, keystone and elaborately foliated consoled cornice.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door to centre at basement with window to left beneath entrance platt, one or more lights to canted bay to right; 6-panel timber door to doorpiece, with narrow flanking lights and depressed arch fanlight, all wood-framed; iron-framed balcony to cornice to doorpiece to No 42; single window to floors above; light to each face of canted bay at right, all floors.
2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof, piended at corner; mutual coped sandstone ashlar stacks and skews; tall cylindrical and moulded octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.
RAILINGS: spiked railings to ashlar steps and entrance platts and, set in coping, to street; plain railings to basement.
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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