Description

Probably James Milne, 1814; early 20th century single storey block to S, re-modelled at back by Dick Peddie and Walker Todd, 1935. 2-storey, basement and attic, 6-bay double villa, comprising 2 3-bay mirrored houses. Tooled coursed sandstone ashlar with polished dressings to principal elevation; tooled squared and snecked sandstone to rear. Entablatured and architraved doorways; long and short quoins; first floor cill course; eaves cornice; eaves blocking course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; doorways reached by stone steps to centre to bays of

ground floor, panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights, flanking bays to left and right obscured by single storey retail units (see below); regular fenestration to 1st floor; 4-light canted dormer to left of attic floor, modern and 2-pane skylights to centre and right of attic. No 34a Raeburn Place: Single storey, cement-faced, flat-roofed bank advanced to ground floor of No 34 Raeburn Place: asymmetrical; granite faced base course; architraved doorway with carved husk decoration, 2-leaf panelled timber door; 2-light plate-glass windows flanking to left and above with simple geometric glazing pattern; cornice carved with Greek key motif; left and right returns blank. See separate listing for Nos 30C-D obscuring ground floor to right.

E ELEVATION: gabled.

N ELEVATION: irregularly placed door and window openings to basement floor; window to ground floor; regularly placed window to 1st floor; rectangular dormers to attic.

W ELEVATION: gabled; 2 windows to ground floor, window centred to 1st floor.

Predominantly 12-pane and 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews. Coped gablehead and wallhead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: bank interior remodelled, decorative cornicing survives; other interiors not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped sandstone rubble boundary walls to rear.

Statement of Interest

B-Group with 28, 28A, 30 and 30A-D Raeburn Place, 19-25 Raeburn Place, 27, 27A-B and 29 Raeburn Place, 31, 31A and 33 Raeburn Place and 35-41 Raeburn Place (see separate listings). In 1780 Sir Henry Raeburn married Ann Edgar, widow of Count Leslie, who owned Old Deanhaugh House, which then became Raeburn's. Shortly afterwards he bought the nearby St Bernard House, and consequently owned much of the land to the N of the Water of Leith. In 1813 he commenced on developing and feuing some of this land, at that time known as Deanhaugh, for housing. Raeburn Place was the first to be built, and by 1825 the work was all but finished. The E end of the street was originally a series of double villas, with gardens in front. The gardens were developed from the beginning of the 20th century into single storey retail units. The bank at No 34A, re-fronted in 1935, is particularly unusual and well detailed.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632149

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