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Latitude: 55.9339 / 55°56'1"N
Longitude: -3.1676 / 3°10'3"W
OS Eastings: 327155
OS Northings: 671815
OS Grid: NT271718
Mapcode National: GBR 8TN.WC
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.93WV
Plus Code: 9C7RWRMJ+GX
Entry Name: 2 Burgess Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2 Burgess Terrace, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 25 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390893
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44205
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390893
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 19th century. 2 storey, 3 bay house with baronial and Jacobean detailing; single storey wing adjoining to rear. Cream sandstone coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; cornice and carved strapwork panel with rose finial to doorpiece; single window to 1st floor above breaking eaves in round arched pediment with carved rose finial. Single window to ground floor outer left; corniced architrave with carved strapwork panel above; single window to 1st floor above breaking eaves with pediment and thistle finial. Advanced crowstep gabled bay to outer right with full height, 3 light canted window; cornice above ground floor window; cable moulding to eaves course; carved panel to gable head; thistle finial above.
N ELEVATION: crowstepped M gable; central bipartite leaded glass stair window.
Plate glass, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate pitched roofs; fish scale slating to canted window; rendered and coped wallhead stacks; original cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low, coped boundary wall to street; replacement railings.
Part of the Waverley Park development designed by David Cousin for the landowner Duncan McLaren, Lord Provost 1851-1854. Cousin's design comprised two crescents encirling a residents' park. Each villa was to be different in design to its neighbours.
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