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9 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9362 / 55°56'10"N

Longitude: -3.1678 / 3°10'3"W

OS Eastings: 327147

OS Northings: 672072

OS Grid: NT271720

Mapcode National: GBR 8TM.VJ

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.92S2

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPJ+FV

Entry Name: 9 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7 and 9 Marchhall Crescent

Listing Date: 29 March 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389548

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43156

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389548

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1880. 2-storey, 4-bay, symmetrical double villa with idiosyncratic details; single storey wings with attics adjoining house to sides and extending to rear. Red sandstone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings to principal elevation; squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base course; advanced cills to 1st floor windows; deep cornice.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; round-arched, plate glass fanlights; pedimented bracketed hoodmoulds, pilasters and decoratively carved keystones to doorpieces; single windows above with slightly arched architraves and decorative brackets to cills. Full-height, 3-light, canted windows to outer bays; ground floor central lights segmental-arched; plain, tapering aprons to central 1st floor windows above.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: single storey wings with attics to E bays and protruding to rear of house.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows to No 9; modern replacement pivot windows to No 7. Grey slate piended roof (slate roofs to attics of wings); coursed, coped wallhead stacks; canted, pedimented dormers flanking coped, central ridge stack.

Statement of Interest

Similar to contemporary houses at 11 and 13 Marchhall Crescent (see separate list entries).

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