Description

Possibly Thomas Gibson, circa 1880, 6-bay tenement with Baronial details, forming part of terrace, 3 bays either side identical; stone-cleaned. Coursed grey sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornices to ground floor openings, except central doorway; string course at 3rd floor; eaves cornice; chamfered reveals at ground and 1st floors, stop-chamfered to2nd and 3rd; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights.

S ENTRANCE elevation: doorways in 2nd and 5th bays and between 3rd and 4th bays; blinded balustraded aprons to 1st floor single windows to 2nd and 3rd floors; pedimented dormerheads linked to wallhead stacks. Doorway between 3rd and 4th bays with corbelled and crenellated panel set between 1st and 2nd dloors above. Full-height canted windows in 3rd and 6th bays; swept and facetted pyramidal roofs; decorative iron finial to 6th bay. Bipartite windows in advanced and gabled panels of 1st and 5th bays; blank heraldic shields set in gableheads; stone finial retained to 1st bay. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead and mutual stacks; gabletted skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Low saddleback to street.

Statement of Interest

This tenement forms part of the $220,000 scheme initiated by the builders W & D Macgrgor for the books of tenements now comprising Warrender Park Crescent, Marchmont Street, Warrender Park Road, and Alvanley Terrace. According to the Building News, Thomas Gibson was the architect, although Dean of Guild Court records show that other architects were involved. Detailed as 135-139 Warrender Park Road.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806147

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)