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Latitude: 55.9375 / 55°56'15"N
Longitude: -3.2023 / 3°12'8"W
OS Eastings: 324990
OS Northings: 672259
OS Grid: NT249722
Mapcode National: GBR 8LM.T1
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.S181
Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+23
Entry Name: 147, 149, 151 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 147-151 (Odd Nos) Warrender Park Road
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371710
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30640
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371710
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Robert Paterson & Son 1881. 4-storey, 6-bay tenement with Baronial details, forming part of terrace. Coursed orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornices to ground floor openings, except central doorway; string course at 3rd floor cill level; eaves cornice; chamfered reveals at ground and 1st floors, stop-chamfered above.
S ENTRANCE elevation: round-arched canopied doorways in 2nd and 5th bays and square lintelled doorway between 3rd and 4th bays; deep-set tripartite panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; blinded balustraded aprons to 1st floor single windows in 2nd and 5th bays; single windows to 2nd and 3rd floors; pedimented dormerheads linked to wallhead stacks. Doorway in 4th bay; deep-set panelled door; plate glass fanlight; hoodmoulded square blank panel set between 1st and 2nd floors. Full-height canted windows in 3rd and 7th bays; swept pyramidal roofs; decorative iron finials. Bipartite windows in advanced gabled panels to 1st and 5th bays; blank heraldic shields set in gableheads. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead and mutual stacks; gabletted skewputts.INTERIORS: not seen 1991.
Low boundary wall to street.
This tenement form part of the £220,000 scheme initated by the builders W & D Macgregor for the blocks 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.
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