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Latitude: 55.9515 / 55°57'5"N
Longitude: -3.1171 / 3°7'1"W
OS Eastings: 330337
OS Northings: 673722
OS Grid: NT303737
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y1N1
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.2NXX
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2M+H4
Entry Name: 38 Brighton Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 38 and 40 Brighton Place
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364143
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27139
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 38 Brighton Place
ID on this website: 200364143
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824, with later alterations; No 40 subdivided in 1965. Mirrored pair of 2 storey with basement, 3-bay classical terraced houses with irregular single storey flanking pavilions, slightly projecting to No 38; slightly set back to No 40. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled NE pavilion and at ground, droved ashlar to basement and SW pavilion; squared and snecked sandstone to side elevations and rear. Band courses between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice, blocking course; band course, cornice, blocking course to wing of No 38; band course and coping to No 40 and pavilion.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: original cast-iron handrails flanking
steps (3 steps to No 38; 2 steps to No 40) to panelled door (upper panels glazed to No 38, also glazed canopy above door); stained glass (No 38), plate glass (No 40) rectangular fanlight above each; window at 1st floor. Windows to each floor in intermediate bays; window to inner bays, basement of each villa. Bipartite window to NE pavilion; window and door to SW pavilion.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: No 38 not seen fully, 1994; blank bay to centre at ground and 1st floor; possibly timber bowed window at bay to right; stained-glazed upper sections to each. Basement to No 40; additional bull-faced render storey to pavilion.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation and rear of No 38; border-glazed staircase window to SW; variety to rear of No 40, 12-pane timber sash and case windows and modern swing casements. Grey slate piended roof. Ashlar and rendered, coped mutual stack to front; square rendered and coped wallhead stack to NE and rear of No 38; harled and coped wallhead stack to rear and SW; ashlar truncated and coped stack to front of SW elevation.
INTERIORS: No 38 not seen, 1994, encaustic tiles to hall, original cast-iron banister. Good plasterwork to ground floor flat of No 40, including a large ceiling rose to front room; shutters in place; encaustic tiles and delicate plaster work to vestibule.
BOUNDARY WALLS: sandstone (weathered) with coping to fronts of No 38 and No 40; tall rubble garden walls to rear.
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