Description

Circa 1880. 2 storey, 4 bay, symmetrical, pair of classical houses. Cream sandstone polished ashlar; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; channelled quoins; eaves course; cornice.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bipartite windows to ground floor central bays; cornice, arcaded eaves course and incised floreate details to advanced architraves; single windows to 1st floor above; lugged and shouldered advanced architraves with incised floral detail. Single advanced basket arched windows to ground floor in outer bays; 3 light canted windows to 1st floor above with polygonal roofs and cast iron finials. Doorways to recessed porches adjoining houses to E and W; panelled doors.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with modern skylights; pitched roofs to porches with fish scale slating; corniced wallhead and ridge stacks; octagonal moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Queens Crescent is part of the Waverley Park development designed by David Cousin for the landowner Duncan McLaren who was Lord Provost 1851-1854. These houses are grouped around a central residents park.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772400

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)