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Latitude: 55.9697 / 55°58'11"N
Longitude: -3.1569 / 3°9'24"W
OS Eastings: 327888
OS Northings: 675798
OS Grid: NT278757
Mapcode National: GBR 8X7.1H
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.G6YV
Plus Code: 9C7RXR9V+V6
Entry Name: 5 Claremont Park, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 Claremont Park with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Lamp Brackets
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363449
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26726
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 5 Claremont Park
ID on this website: 200363449
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Thomas Hamilton, circa 1827. 2-storey, 3-bay classical villa with taller 1st floor and basement, single storey pavilions and screen (?) walls. Polished ashlar sandstone to front, coursed rubble to sides and rear. Base course, cill course to 1st floor windows, blocking course and eaves cornice. Unifying parapet over pavilions and screen walls. Architraved openings to main block; panelled aprons below ground floor openings; projecting cills to pavilion openings.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance door to centre bay; panelled door with rectangular fanlight, framed by doorpiece of distyle fluted Ionic columns in antis with entablature above. Later full-height canted window to outer right; dividing string course. Painted cast iron ornamental window guards to outer left and centre 1st floor openings. Single window to each pavilion; depressed arched carriage doors with voussoirs in outer bays. Basement windows.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: single central window to 1st floor.
S ELEVATION: not seen (1995).
Plate glass timber sash and case windows to all openings; grilled at basement level. Grey slate piend and platformed roof. Ashlar wallhead stacks each comprising 7 grouped octagonal shafts with base and cornice.
INTERIOR: not seen (1995).
BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND LAMP BRACKETS: ashlar dwarf wall with coping to street. Square-section ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps and cast-iron lamp brackets.
Nos 5 and 6 originally identical apart from screen walls; canted bay added to No 5.
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