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15, 16, 17 Warrender Park Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9384 / 55°56'18"N

Longitude: -3.2014 / 3°12'5"W

OS Eastings: 325050

OS Northings: 672359

OS Grid: NT250723

Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.0Q

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SZQX

Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+9C

Entry Name: 15, 16, 17 Warrender Park Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 15-17 (Inclusive Nos) Warrender Park Crescent

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371680

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30613

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 15, 16, 17 Warrender Park Crescent

ID on this website: 200371680

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Circa 1800. 4-storey, 5-bay tenement, forming part of terrace. Coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above ground and 2nd floors; chamfered reveals; round-arched doorways with pilaster surrounds; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; gabled dormerheads to 3rd floor windows in 2nd, 3rd and 5th bays.

N ENTRANCE elevation: pedimented doorways in 2nd and 3rd bays; bipartite window between bays at ground; single windows in 2nd bay; bipartite windows in 3rd bay with carved consoles and balustrades to balcony at 2nd floor. Carved strapwork pediment to doorway in 5th bay; single window flanking to right; bipartite windows toeach floor above in advanced panel. Full-height canted windows in 1st and 4th bays; pyramidal roofs; decorative wrought-iron finials. Bracketted chimneybreast to corniced wallhead stack between 1st and 2nd bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; boxdormer; corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Boundary coping to street.

Statement of Interest

This tenement forms part of the $220,000 scheme initiated by the builders W & D Macgregor for the blocks of tenements now comprising Warrender park crescent, Marchmont Street, Warrender Park Road, and Alvanley Terrace.

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