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Latitude: 55.9369 / 55°56'12"N
Longitude: -3.1916 / 3°11'29"W
OS Eastings: 325656
OS Northings: 672177
OS Grid: NT256721
Mapcode National: GBR 8PM.08
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Y1BJ
Plus Code: 9C7RWRP5+Q8
Entry Name: 5-5A Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 and 5A Chalmers Crescent
Listing Date: 15 January 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371205
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30347
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371205
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1865. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan Baronial style villa with 3-storey tower; subdivided (1949). Squared and snecked rubble; stugged ashlar and polished dressings at E elevation. Base course; crowstepped gables and gabled dormerheads; skewputts; chamfered reveals.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance tower; shouldered and roll-moulded surrounds to porch entrance and main door; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; blank rectangular tablet and string course above porch; single shouldered window at 1st floor; jettied 3rd stage with segmental-arch corbelling over window below, with sdhouldered single windows breaking eaves in dormerheads at each face; chamfered angles and cornice; attenuated pyramidial roof above with fishscale slates, lead flashing, and weathervane finial. Advanced bipartite window flanking to right at ground floor; dividing cornice; advanced shouldered bipartite window and dormerhead above. Canted window in gabled bay corbelled to square at first floor with small gablehead window above.
N ELEVATION: irregular fenestration.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay; single windows at ground and 1st floors; bipartite at centre ground floor; doormerheads breaking eaves at 1ST AND 2ND BAYS; CROWSTEPPED MAIN GABLE AT 3RD BAY.
W ELEVATION: single storey triple gabled service wing: modern forestair to 1st floor; irregular genestration.
Mixture of 4-pane and plate glass sash and cazse windows. Grey slate gabled roof; 19th century dormer window to S; lead flashing; 4 wallhead stacks; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1990.
Low coped boundary wall to Chalmers Crescent; high wall to Palmerston Place.
Alterations to service wing in 1884 by Robert Paterson & Son.
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