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56, 58, 60 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9381 / 55°56'17"N

Longitude: -3.1952 / 3°11'42"W

OS Eastings: 325439

OS Northings: 672316

OS Grid: NT254723

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.8V

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.W0PL

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ3+6W

Entry Name: 56, 58, 60 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 32-38 (Even Nos) Marchmont Road & 56-60 Warrender Park Road

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371595

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30557

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371595

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Thomas P Marwick, 1888. 4-storey baronial detailed corner tenement with shops at ground. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting red polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; cill course at 2nd floor; cornice and string course above 2nd floor; chamfered reveals.

E (MARCHMONT ROAD) elevation: 5-bay, including corner bay. 4 altered shopfronts at round floor; panelled main door; margin-paned fanlight. Full-height canted window corbelled out over ground floor in bay to outer left and corbelled to square at gablehead. Bipartite windows in 2nd and 3rd bays; pedimented dormerheads to 3rd floor windows. Single windows in 4th bay; semi-circular dormerhead to 3rd floor window. Corner bay canted across angle; open pediment to central light of 1st floor window; cornice above 3rd floor; facetted pyramidal roof; lead finial.

N WARRENDER PARK ROAD elevation: 3-bay, excluding corner bay. Good early shopfronts to ground; fan glazing, inset glazed door with Art Noveau door furniture and decorative wrought iron gate to No 60. Single windows in 1st and 2nd bays; 1st bay gabled; semi-circular dormerhead to 3rd floor window in 2nd bay. Full-height canted window corbelled out over ground floor in bay to outer right and corbelled to square at gablehead. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped and rendered mutual and wallhead stacks; some original rainwater goods, including hoppers.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Statement of Interest

Designed for the builder, Hugh MacKIntosh, along with Nos 40-44 Marchmont Road and Nos 62-66 Warrender Park Road (see separate listings).

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