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4, 4A Ventnor Terrace, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.932 / 55°55'55"N

Longitude: -3.1709 / 3°10'15"W

OS Eastings: 326944

OS Northings: 671609

OS Grid: NT269716

Mapcode National: GBR 8TP.61

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.8599

Plus Code: 9C7RWRJH+QJ

Entry Name: 4, 4A Ventnor Terrace, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 4, 4A and 5 Ventnor Terrace, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390967

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44436

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390967

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Early 20th century. 2 storey with basement and attic, 5 bay, near symmetrical pair of houses with baronial details. Cream sandstone squared and snecked rubble with red sandstone polished ashlar dressings. Advanced cills and cornices to ground floor canted bays; cill course to 1st floor windows; cornice and blocking course to canted bays; deeply overhanging dentilled eaves.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway in bay to penultimate left; 2 leaf panelled outer door; broken pediment and carved finials to doorpiece; bipartite windows to ground floor central bays; single windows to 1st floor above. Full height, 3 light windows to outer bays. 4 corniced box dormers.

E (COBDEN ROAD) ELEVATION: piended porch with segmental arched openings and flanking pilasters; single window to 1st floor above; corbelled,

3 light canted window to 1st floor outer right with carved wood parapet; box dormer above. Gablehead stack with carved baronial shield.

Predominantly plate glass, timber sash and case windows; small paned dormers and porch. Grey slate, swept pitched roofs; coped wallhead and ridge stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary walls to street.

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