Description

Circa 1880. 4-storey, 6-bay Scottish 17th century style tenement, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above ground floor; cornice above 2nd floor; chamfered reveals.

W ENTRANCE ELEVATION: 3 roll-moulded doorways; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Single windows in 5th bay above doorway and offset above doorway in 2nd bay; semi-circular dormerheads to 3rd floor windows in these bays. Bipartite windows in bay to outer right, and offset above bipartite window and central doorway in 3rd bay; blank tablets set in dormerheads. Full-height, 4-light canted windows in 1st and 4th bays, corbelled to square at crowstepped gables; square initialled tablets set in gableheads. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped and rendered wallhead stack; moulded octagonal cans; coped mutual stacks; crowstepped gable adjoining tenement to N; beak skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

Low boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

The period between 1860 and 1900 saw significant residential expansion in the city of Edinburgh with construction of a number of residential tenement suburbs.

The tenement suburb of Marchmont developed between circa 1876 and 1914

following the feuing of the Warrender family estate (land south of the Meadows).

Marchmont's development can be viewed in two distinct phases, with the first phase, prior to 1900, largely following the plan laid out by David Bryce of 1869. This phase, which saw the construction of streets in the north and east of the site, is characterised by the individual nature of the work by builders and architects who frequently developed only one or two feus at a time. These tenements were built predominantly in the baronial style following guidelines set down in the 1869 feu charter. In the second phase, after 1900, the baronial style recedes and elevations become more uniform.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '15-19 (odd nos) Marchmont Road'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804727

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