Description

Duncan Menzies, 1893. 2-storey and attic row of terraced 2-bay Baronial houses with canted bays with crowstepped gables. Coursed polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; band course between ground and 1st floors, corniced at canted bays; cornice at roofline at bay to left and, beneath crenellated parapet, to canted bay at right (vice versa to No 9); stepped skews; alternate segmental and triangular pediments to dormers at left of gables. Margins to 1st floor window, bay at left (bay at right, No 9).

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: doorpiece to bay to left at ground (bay to right, No 9); panelled pilasters containing circular motif flank moulded margins to entrance; fluted volutes to cornice; narrow lights flank panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight; window at 1st floor above; dormer to attic; 2-storey canted bay at right (at left to No 9), with light to each face; bipartite window (converted to single window at Nos 1 and 5) to gable, above parapet of canted bay.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing (4-pane to dormers). Grey slate roof; coped, coursed, polished sandstone ashlar mutual and gablehead stacks with cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low, coped, coursed sandstone rubble boundary walls to street.

Statement of Interest

B-Group with 15-25 (odd nos) Murrayfield Avenue and 2-60 (even nos) Murrayfield Avenue. Impressive group of Baronial houses lining wide avenue. Matched by similar block further up the same side, Nos 15-25 (listed separately), and longer terrace opposite, Nos 2-60 (listed separately). This range differs from the others in having different, slightly simpler doorpieces with no nook-shafts.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77777980

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