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Latitude: 55.9519 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.1164 / 3°6'59"W
OS Eastings: 330382
OS Northings: 673771
OS Grid: NT303737
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y1TC
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.3N8K
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2M+QC
Entry Name: 28 Brighton Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 26 and 28 Brighton Place
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364111
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27116
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 28 Brighton Place
ID on this website: 200364111
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824. Mirrored pair of 2-storey with basement, 3-bay classical terraced houses, with single storey pavilions flanking and slightly set back. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled to ground; droved ashlra to wings and to basement of No 28; rendered basement to No 26; harled to NE elevation and rear of No 26; squared and snecked to SW and rear of No 28. Band course between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice and blocking course; coping to wings.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 steps (concrete to No 26; ashlar to No 28) with original cast-iron handrails to deep-set panelled doors (modern door to No 28) in outer bays; rectangular fanlights and windows above each (plate glass to No 26; modern grooved glass to No 28). Windows to each floor of intermediate bays. Garage door slapped in NE wing and panelled door; window and broad opening to SW wing.
NW AND SE (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: staircase windows to each set in bowed bay.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: blank bays to centre of each villa; window to NE wing and SW wing.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows, principal elevation; 12-pane timber sash and case to rear. Grey slate piended roof (with platform at apex). Ashlar with render mutual stack to front; harled and coped wallhead stack to rear of No 26; rendered truncated wallhead stack to SW; rendered and coped wallhead stack to rear of No 28.
INTERIORS: plaster cornices in place, shutters in place and working at No 24; wooden chimneypiece to front room, ground. All shutters in place and fixed in No 28; cornices in place; fireplaces now removed; steep gradient staircase with cast iron banister within bowed bay to side elevations, apsidal arch above with cornice; ceiling rose to front room, 1st floor.
BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping, with reproduction railings, at No 26, broken to give entrance to garage. Modern bull-faced concrete, at No 28, broken to left, giving access to rear, where (free-standing, harled) garage situated.
These houses are the only ones in Brighton Place with bowed bays to the side elevations.
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