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Latitude: 55.9516 / 55°57'5"N
Longitude: -3.1052 / 3°6'18"W
OS Eastings: 331085
OS Northings: 673727
OS Grid: NT310737
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y4B3
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.8NLS
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2V+JW
Entry Name: 5 Elcho Terrace, Portobello, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 Elcho Terrace
Listing Date: 14 March 1989
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363697
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26840
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363697
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
Later or late 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay, square-plan classical house on corner site. Stugged ashlar, droved ashlar dressings; porch with channelled polished ashlar. Base course, band course, eaves course, mutuled cornice and quoining. Stop-chamfered arrises to windows.
SW (ELCHO TERRACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; (later?) porch at centre; 4-panelled door, segmental-arched plate glass fanlight, set within moulded architrave; raised corner pilasters, cornice and blocking course with cast-iron railing above. Double glazed door with plate glass fanlight above at 1st floor. Windows to ground and 1st floors of flanking bays.
SE (JOHN STREET) ELEVATION: left bay projecting with canted, piend-roofed window. One storey, with attic space, extension, recessed, to outer right.
NW ELEVATION: symmetrical; round-arched, border-glazed staircase window to centre.
8-pane, 4-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof; shouldered ashlar wallhead stacks to all elevations (between bays 2 and 3) except John Street. Mansard slate roof with platform at apex, to extension; stack at centre to NE.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: squared and snecked rubble with coping, formerly with railings, now partly replaced.
The Easter Duddingston Feuing plan is very unclear. However it does indicate a building on the site, although not of the magnitude of the present house. The 2nd edition OS map does show the house as now found. The listing includes No 5A Elcho Terrace.
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