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Latitude: 55.9385 / 55°56'18"N
Longitude: -3.1983 / 3°11'54"W
OS Eastings: 325241
OS Northings: 672359
OS Grid: NT252723
Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.NQ
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VZ5W
Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ2+9M
Entry Name: 85, 87, 89 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 85-89(ODD Nos) Warrender Park Road
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371698
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30628
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371698
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
George Wilson, 1886. 4-storey corner tenement block with Jacobean details and corner tower. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above ground floor; cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors; single windows at 3rd floor breaking eaves in semi-circular dormerheads; raised window surrounds; chamfered reveals. S WARRENDER PARK ROAD: 5-bay with polygonal corner tower to outer right. Doorway with Gibbsian surround and pediment between 1st and 2nd bays. Similar doorway offset to right in 4th bay; single windows above; broken pediment to1st floor window. Doorway flanking to left of corbel toadvanced bipartite windows in 3rd bay; single window flanking to right of corbel at ground; pedimented slit window set in curvilnear gablehead. Full-height canted window in 1st bay; scrolled pediment to ground floor window; pediment to 1st floor window; balustraded parapet; oculus set in curvilnear gable behind. Single windows in 2nd and 5th bays. Single window at ground between 3rd and 4th bays. 4-stage polygonal corner tower breaking eaves: 3 windows at ground and tower breaking eaves: 3 windows with shallow curvilinear cill details at 1st and 4th floors; ogee roof with weathervane finial.
E SPOTTISWOODE STREET: 3-bay with polygonal corner tower to outer left (see above). Single windows to each bay; pediments to 1st floor windows and central window at 2nd floor. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack; coped and rendered mutual stacks. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.
Low boundary wall to street.
Designed for Andrew Tweedie, builder.
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