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Latitude: 55.9351 / 55°56'6"N
Longitude: -3.1721 / 3°10'19"W
OS Eastings: 326872
OS Northings: 671959
OS Grid: NT268719
Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.YX
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.72QX
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPH+25
Entry Name: 5 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 and 7 Mayfield Terrace, Including Boundary Walls and Pedestrian Gates
Listing Date: 25 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390935
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44233
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390935
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1860. 2 storey and basement, 4 bay symmetrical pair of classical houses. Cream sandstone polished ashlar channelled at ground and recently cleaned; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; cill course and moulded architraves to 1st floor windows; cornice; blocking course.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to doorways to 2 outer bays; 2 leaf panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; flanking strip pilasters; Doric columns to corniced doorpieces; bipartite windows to 1st floor above; tripartite windows to both floors to central bays.
Plate glass, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; corniced wallhead and ridge stacks; moulded cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND PEDESTRIAN GATES: low coped boundary wall to street; higher mutual walls (to E with plain gatepier); corniced pedestrian gates adjoining to E and W.
Formerly Ross Street becoming Mayfield Terrace circa 1855. Part of the Blacket estate feued by Benjamin and George Bell and laid out 1825 onwards. As with Blacket Avenue and Blacket Place, both ends of Mayfield Terrace were originally closed by gates and lodges to afford greater security to residents. Similar to Nos 27-29, and 31-33 Blacket Place.
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