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74, 76, 78 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9367 / 55°56'12"N

Longitude: -3.1934 / 3°11'36"W

OS Eastings: 325545

OS Northings: 672155

OS Grid: NT255721

Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.MC

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X1HQ

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+MJ

Entry Name: 74, 76, 78 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 74-78 Marchmont Crescent

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371366

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30439

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371366

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

R Roberts, 1883. 4-storey, 5-bay Baronial style tenement, part of curved terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course above ground floor; dividing string courses above 1st and 2nd floors; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway and single window to inner right; doorway and bipartite window to inner left; central doorway; panelled doors; plate glass fanlight. Full-height canted windows corbelled to square crowstepped gableheads with stone finials in bays to outer left and right; blank rectangular panels in gableheads. Central slightly advanced 3-storey bay corbelled at 1st floor with tripartie windows at all floors; 4th floor window breaking eaves in stone finialled gable with circular floral patera. Single windows in remaining bays; with floor windows breaking eaves in finialled pedimented dormers.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced mutual stack; moulded octagonal cans; beak skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 32-72 and 80-104 (even nos) Marchmont Crescent. Designed for William gray & Sons, Joiners, as were the adjacent nos 68-72 (see separate listing).

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