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37, 39, 41 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.938 / 55°56'16"N

Longitude: -3.1944 / 3°11'39"W

OS Eastings: 325485

OS Northings: 672299

OS Grid: NT254722

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.FW

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X00Q

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ4+56

Entry Name: 37, 39, 41 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 37-41 (Odd Nos) Marchmont Road

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371583

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30545

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371583

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Possibly Alexander MacNaughton, 1880. 4-storey, 5-bay Scottish 17th century style tenement. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course above ground floor; corbel table at 3rd floor stepped down to form hood to 1st floor windows in 1st and 4th bays; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves.

W ENTRANCE elevation: 3 stop-chamfered doorways with roll-moulded details, 1 set into angled 2nd bay; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Single windows between each doorway. Bipartite windows to each floor of 3rd and 4th bays; pedimented and finialled dormerheads at 3rd floor. Full-height canted window in bay to outer right, corbelled to square at crowstepped gablehead; circular patera inset. 2nd 2-light bay angled and advanced; facetted pyramidal roof; cast-iron finial. Bipartite windows in bay to outer left; crowstepped gablehead. Plate glass sash and case windows. grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack to advanced angle bay; corniced mutual stack; moulded octagonal cans; beak skewputts. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Low boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Site plans included with the Dean of Guild warrant suggest that this tenement was designed by Alexander Macnaughton for James Miller.

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