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Latitude: 55.9463 / 55°56'46"N
Longitude: -3.1993 / 3°11'57"W
OS Eastings: 325193
OS Northings: 673232
OS Grid: NT251732
Mapcode National: GBR 8MH.FX
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TSPW
Plus Code: 9C7RWRW2+G7
Entry Name: 50 West Port, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 50 West Port, Former Police and Fire Stations, Including Boundary Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 10 April 1986
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370994
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30193
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370994
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Morham, 1884. 4-storey and basement 5-bay tenement block, with Scots Baronial details. Squared and snecked bull-faced cream sandstone with polished dressings. Stepped string course between ground and 1st floors; corbelled course between 2nd and 3rd. Windows in chamfered surrounds. Advanced centre bay with stone steps to 2-leaf timber boarded door in moulded stop-chamfered surround; bipartite window to 3rd floor with date (1884) in segmental pediment; crowstepped gable with corniced gablehead chimney. Shoulder-arched former entrance to fire station to right, with 4-light stone-mullioned window above. Bipartites to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors and pedimented gableheads breaking eaves in outer bays. Stone-mullioned and transomed canted window to ground and basement to outer left.
Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.
BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: spear-headed railings on low ashlar-coped boundary wall; decorative finials (axe to right) marking entrance.
Built as combined police and fire station with charge room cells (to rear), engine room and 3 floors of accommodation above. The West Port was originally the SW city gate, and the street now known as West Port lay in the burgh of Portsburgh.
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