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5 Argyle Park Terrace, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9395 / 55°56'22"N

Longitude: -3.1919 / 3°11'30"W

OS Eastings: 325645

OS Northings: 672467

OS Grid: NT256724

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.YB

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YZ63

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ5+Q6

Entry Name: 5 Argyle Park Terrace, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 4 and 5 Argyle Park Terrace

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371181

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30332

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371181

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

W Hamilton Beattie, circa 1876. Pair of 4-storey with attic, 5-bay symmetrical Baronial style tenements, mirrored about centre. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course between ground and 1st floor; corbel table above 2nd floor )segmental-arched over windows); crowstepped gables; raised window surrounds.

N (entrance) elevation: each 5-bay block comprising: central doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Central gable with 2 round-arched gablehead windows. Single windows in bays flanking centre. 3-storey canted windows to outer bays, surmounted by cornices and cast-iron brattishing, forming mock balcony to 3rd floor bipartite windows; gabled timber dormers (finialled at No 5) with bracketted bargeboards and round-arched bipartite windows.

Predominantly 4-pane plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced gablehead and mutual stacks; moulded cans; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 31-43 (inc) Argyle Place, 1-5 (inc) Argyle Park Terrace and 1-15 (odd nos) Roseneath Terrace.

Designed for the builder, John Pyper.

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