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4, 6, 8 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9392 / 55°56'21"N

Longitude: -3.1955 / 3°11'43"W

OS Eastings: 325421

OS Northings: 672444

OS Grid: NT254724

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.6F

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WZJ8

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ3+MR

Entry Name: 4, 6, 8 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 4-8 (Even Nos) Marchmont Road

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371590

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30552

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371590

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1878. 4-storey, 4-bay Scottish 17th century style tenement, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with a polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing cornices to outer bays; corbel table at 3rd floor, stepped down at centre toform hood to heraldic panel; variety of plain and stop-chamfered reveals; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves.

E ENTRANCE elevation: 3 roll-moulded and hoodmoulded doorways; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Doorways divided by single and bipartite windows. Bipartite windows to bays above, those at 3rd floor with crowstepped dormerheads linked to central stack. Gabled full-height advanced bipartite window in bay to outer left; angles chamfered above ground floor; circular patera set in gablehead; stone finial. Full-height canted window with rounded bay to outer right,corbelled to square at gablehead; cruciform patera inset. Rounded angle adjoining building to outer left. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; central corbelled stack with heavy coping.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Boundary coping to street.

Statement of Interest

Possibly by Edward Calvert.

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