Description

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824. Mirrored pair of 2-storey (possibly with basement), 3-bay classical terraced houses with flanking single storey pavilions slightly set back. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled to ground; droved ashlar to pavilions (now sandtexed at No 24) and to basement; harled NE elevation and rear of No 22; harled to SW elevation and rear of No 24. 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 concrete steps to deep-set doors (Edinburgh panelled door and original cast-iron handrails to No 22; 2-leaf modern panelled door to No 24) in outer bays of each villa; plate glass rectangular fanlights and windows above each. Windows to each floor in intermediate bays. Window and boarded door to each wing.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994. Bays to centre blank at 1st floor of each house; single storey extensions to centre bays of each house.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation and rear of No 24; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to rear of No 22. Grey slate piended roof with platform roof at apex; piended roofs to extensions to rear. Rendered and coped mutual stack to front and rear; partially harled ashlar wallhead to rear of No 22; harled and coped wallhead stack to NE elevation; rendered and coped wallhead stack to rear of No 24 and SW elevation.

INTERIORS: not seen fully, 1994. Shutters in place and some (all?) in working order at No 22.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping to front (now broken) of both houses.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808366

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014