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35-39 Argyle Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9393 / 55°56'21"N

Longitude: -3.1917 / 3°11'30"W

OS Eastings: 325656

OS Northings: 672442

OS Grid: NT256724

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.ZF

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YZ98

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ5+P8

Entry Name: 35-39 Argyle Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 35-39 (Inclusive Nos) Argyle Place

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371194

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30340

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371194

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1875. 4-storey, 6-bay Baronial tenement with shops at ground floor, part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; corbel course at 3rd floor, forming hoods to 2nd floor windows, and stepped down to 2nd floor at 3rd and 4th bays; chamfered reveals.

E (ENTRANCE ELEVATION): 3 shopfronts (formerly 4) retaining original cast-iron piers and capitals, 2 with glazed door recesses. Pibpartite windows in bay to outer left, advanced at 3rd floor, and breaking eaves in finialled and crowstepped gable with circular patera. Similar bay to outer right, but 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in pedimented and finialled gable. Single windows in remaining bays; corwstepped table to 2 central badys; 3rd floor windows to inner left and right breaking eave s in; pedimented and finialled dormerheads

4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof ; corniced gablehead and mutual stacks; 1 rendered and coped mutual stack; moulded cans; beak skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 31-34 and 40-43 (inc) Argyle Place, 1-5 (inc) Argyle Park Terrace and 1-15 (odd nos) Roseneath Terrace.

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