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1 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9351 / 55°56'6"N

Longitude: -3.1728 / 3°10'22"W

OS Eastings: 326829

OS Northings: 671953

OS Grid: NT268719

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.TY

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.72DY

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+2V

Entry Name: 1 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 1 Mayfield Terrace, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390933

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44231

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390933

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Villa

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Description

Circa 1860, style of David Bryce. 2-storey, 2-bay villa on corner site. Coursed, stugged sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Overhanging bracketed timber eaves; bargeboards; chamfered reveals.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced to right rounded at ground, and corbelled to square at 1st floor; architraved and hoodmoulded doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window flanking to left; single window at 1st floor; blank square tablet set in gablehead. Full-height canted window, swept to square at eaves in bay to left; blank square tablet set in gablehead. Former coach-house and service wing recessed to outer right. Modern double garage detached to E.

W (BLACKET PLACE) ELEVATION: 2-bay with single storey wing adjoining to outer left; gabled bay to left; gablet to right bay; single windows to both floors of both bays.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; corniced gablehead stack to W; wallhead stack to S.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped rubble walls to Mayfield Terrace, swept to high walls to Blacket Place.

Statement of Interest

An unusual mixture of baronial and picturesque detailing.

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