Description

Possibly Alexander MacNaughton, 1880. 4-storey, 5-bay Scottish 17th century style tenement. Square and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; stone cleaned. Base course; string course above 1st floor; corbel table at 3rd floor; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves; crowstepped gableheads with inset floral paterae to outer bays; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 roll-moulded doorways (in 2nd, 3rd and 4th bays) divided by single windows; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; bipartite windows above in 3rd and 4th bays, pedimented dormerheads to 3rd floor; single windows in 2nd bay, pedimented dormerhead at 3rd floor. Full-height canted windows in bays to outer left and right, corbelled to square at gablehead. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack; coped mutual stacks; moulded cans; beak skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

Statutory address does not include boundary wall.

Statement of Interest

Site plans included in the Dean of Guild Court suggest that this tenement was designed by Alexander MacNaughton for James Miller. However, the elevations differ from the tenement as built and other tenements in the same block were not started until 1887. The original scheme may have suffered some setback and a new architect may have been employed at a later date, possibly William Hogg, as suggested in Gifford, J. The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh (see References).

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 '43-47 (odd nos) Marchmont Road'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804802

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)