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Latitude: 55.9342 / 55°56'3"N
Longitude: -3.1696 / 3°10'10"W
OS Eastings: 327025
OS Northings: 671855
OS Grid: NT270718
Mapcode National: GBR 8TN.G7
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.83WL
Plus Code: 9C7RWRMJ+M4
Entry Name: 16 Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 16 Queens Crescent, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 25 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390962
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44254
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390962
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
Circa 1870. 1 and 2 storey with attic, 3-bay, asymmetrical Italianate house with central square-plan entrance tower, single storey wing to outer left, advanced, 2-storey gabled wing to E. Cream sandstone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Base course; bracketed cills; deeply overhanging dentilled and bracketed eaves.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: Tower: central round arched doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; plain keystone and springers to architrave; single round arched window to 1st floor above; bipartite round arched window to attic; cast iron finial to roof. Single storey wing to W: central, tripartite round arched window. 2 storey wing to E: 3 light canted window at ground; single window to 1st floor above.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roofs; tall coped wallhead stacks; moulded cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary walls to street; replacement railings.
16 Queens Crescent is one of 3 Italianate villas in the Waverley Park development which was designed by David Cousin for the landowner and former Lord Provost Duncan McLaren. Cousin's design comprises two crescents encircling a residents' park. Each villa was to be different in design to its neighbours.
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