Description

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824. Mirrored pair of 2-storey 3-bay terraced, classical houses with flanking single storey (with basement, No 16) pavilions slightly set back. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled to ground; droved ashlar to pavilions and to basements; rubble NE, SW elevations and rear to both villas; bull-face rendered (brick to rear) 2-storey addition to rear of NE elevation; harled single storey addition to outer left and bay to centre, rear of No 14. Band courses between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice, blocking course; band course and coping to pavilions.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4 steps (ashlar with concrete repairs to tread, No 14; concrete to No 16) with original cast-iron handrails to deep-set panelled doors (2-leaf Edinburgh panelled door to No 14) to outer bays of each villa; rectangular fanlights and windows above each (radial to No 14; plate glass to No 16). Windows to each floor in intermediate bays. Window and door to each pavilions.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: bays to centre at 1st floor of each house blank.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; various windows to rear including 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piend and platformed roof. Rendered and coped mutual stack to front and rear; sandstone and coped wallhead stack to rear, No 14; Brick stack from wing of No 14: rendered with coping wallhead stack to rear of No 16.

INTERIORS: shutters in situ, not working; cast-iron banisters. Bowed walls to back of front rooms, ground floor to both villas. No original chimneypieces at No 14; good but heavily painted plaster cornice, to front rooms, ground and 1st floor. Timber with white marble panels chimneypiece to front room, 1st floor, No 16; border-glazed staircase window; slate floor to hall; tripartite vestibule partition and door with engraved glass.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping to front (now broken) of both houses. Tall rubble garden walls to rear with some brick.

Statement of Interest

The listing includes No 14A Brighton Place.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808104

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