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62 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9352 / 55°56'6"N

Longitude: -3.1738 / 3°10'25"W

OS Eastings: 326768

OS Northings: 671969

OS Grid: NT267719

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.MW

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.62XV

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+3F

Entry Name: 62 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 60 and 62 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390891

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44203

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390891

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1860, style of David Bryce. 2-storey, 6-bay rectangular plan double villa. Coursed stugged sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; overhanging bracketed timber eaves; bargeboards; gablets to 1st floor windows; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pitched roof open timber porches with Jacobean style piers at 2nd and 5th bays; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; single windows at 1st floor above. Single windows in 2 central bays. Full height canted windows swept to square at eaves in bays to outer left and right; dividing cornices; square blank tablets set in gableheads.

4 and 2 pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; mansard roof to rear corniced wallhead and mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans to mutual stack; timber obelisk finials to No 60.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped walls to street.

Statement of Interest

Picturesque cottage design applied to larger suburban villas. Good details in particular to the gabled porches. See also 9 and 11 Dick Place (listed separately).

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