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Latitude: 55.9374 / 55°56'14"N
Longitude: -3.2172 / 3°13'1"W
OS Eastings: 324063
OS Northings: 672266
OS Grid: NT240722
Mapcode National: GBR 8HM.T2
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.K173
Plus Code: 9C7RWQPM+X4
Entry Name: 1 Polwarth Gardens, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1-7 Odd Nos Polwarth Gardens and 1 and 3 Polwarth Crescent
Listing Date: 3 February 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364423
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27307
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 1 Polwarth Gardens
ID on this website: 200364423
Probably John C Hay, dated 1881. 4-storey curved corner tenement block with shops to imposingly tall ground floor; sandstone, ashlar, painted at ground floor; moulded cill courses at 1st and 3rd floor, moulded window margins, architraves at 1st floor; stone bracketted eaves cornice. Continuous balustrade at 1st floor cill level; tripartite shop fronts framed by long thin colonettes. E ELVATION: 3-bay bowed corner tenement; door with rectangular fanlight framed by carved consoles in central bay, blank curved wall above with datestone at 1st floor level crowned by small pediment with palmette pattern, heraldic panel at 3rd floor, wallhead chimney stack, corniced with scrolled bracketts (left missing), octagonal cans; full-height canted bays (arranged 1,2,1) in outer bays, half-piended roofs.
SE (POLWARTH GARDENS) ELEVATION: ornamental doorway with sidelights and rectangular fanlight at outer right, heavy lintel carried by 4 carved consoles; outer left narrow shopfront with door on right; central shopfront canted with door to left; 4 bays above, central right bay 3-storey canted windows, half-piended roof; single windows in remaining bays. NE (POLWARTH CRESCENT) ELEVATION: canted shopfront with central entrance door; 3-bays above with central 3-storey canted window, pitched roof; single windows in outer bays.
Mostly plate glass sash and case windows; Scottish slate roof, lead flashings; mutual rendered chimney stacks.
INTERIORS: not seen 1992.
David Fairweather, builder, applied for a Dean of Guild warrant for six tenements of dwelling houses and shops at Polwarth Gardens and Polwarth Crescent on 24 June 1880. The plans of this application have now been lost but were probably for the above corner block. Fairweather built a number of tenements in Polwarth, all of which were designed by John C Hay, city architect.
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