Description

John Chesser, later 19th century. Terrace of 3, 3-storey with basement, 2-bay plain classical houses with 3-light canted bays. Polished, coursed, sandstone ashlar, droved at basement. No 6 advanced. Base course; cill course to 1st and 2nd floors; corniced doorpiece comprising abbreviated pilasters flanking margin-framed doorway; cornice; blocking course; skews.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: part-glazed door and fanlight to centre of each house at basement; window beneath platt at right, light to each face of canted bay at left, all floors; part-glazed timber doors with rectangular fanlights (with astragals to No 7) to doorpieces at bay to right at ground of each house; single window at floors above.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Concealed roof; coped mutual stacks, mostly with tall cans; ashlar wallhead stack to No 6; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys iron railings to oversailing entrance platts and, set in coping, to street.

Statement of Interest

Part of New Town A-Group. Seemingly the work of John Chesser, although the street as a whole was originally conceived as the southern entrance to Grosvenor and Lansdowne Crescents, the overall scheme of which was devised by Robert Matheson. It is therefore likely these buildings were executed some time after Matheson's 12-21 Lansdowne Crescent of 1865, and the quality of the stone is somewhat inferior to that used in the latter and, indeed, to that of No 9 Rosebery Street. Matheson was the Surveyor of Works in Scotland and had purchased the West Coates estate in 1860 as an investment. Chesser was the Superintendent of Works to Heriot's Trust.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632165

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings