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Latitude: 55.9378 / 55°56'15"N
Longitude: -3.2029 / 3°12'10"W
OS Eastings: 324952
OS Northings: 672287
OS Grid: NT249722
Mapcode National: GBR 8LL.QZ
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.R0ZV
Plus Code: 9C7RWQQW+4R
Entry Name: 5-9 Alvanley Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5-9 (Inclusive Nos)alvanley Terrace
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371473
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30495
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371473
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Thomas Gibson, 1877. 4-storey, 6-bay tenement with recessed 7th bay, forming part of terrace; shops at ground floor. Lightly stugged grey ashlar with polished dressings. Decorative carved cornice above shops; raised window surrounds, architraved at 1st floor; pedimented dormerheads to 3rd floor windows.
W ENTRANCE elevation 3 (formerly 4) shopfronts with continous fascia and decorative cornice and panelled maindoor fascia and decorative cornice, and panelled maindoor at ground. Full-height canted window across angle in 6th bay; polygonal roof. Bipartite windows in 1st, 3rd and 4th bays. Single window at ground in recessed 7th bay; single windows above. Single windows to each floor in remaining bays. Plate glass and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack to S return; coped mutual stacks.
INTERIORS: not seen 1991.
This tenement forms part of the $220,000 scheme initiated by the builders W & D Macgregor, and designed by Thomas Gibson, for the blocks of tenements now comprising Warrender park crescent,marchmont Street, Warrender Park Road, and Alvanley Terrace.
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