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Latitude: 55.951 / 55°57'3"N
Longitude: -3.1185 / 3°7'6"W
OS Eastings: 330248
OS Northings: 673672
OS Grid: NT302736
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y1BB
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.2P88
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2J+9H
Entry Name: 1 West Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 West Brighton Crescent
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365063
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27746
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Portobello, 1 West Brighton Crescent
ID on this website: 200365063
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
John Baxter, circa 1826 with later alterations. Single bay with basement, 3-bay classical house, now subdivided by floor. Polished ashlar to ground, droved and stugged ashlar to basement, harled side (SE) elevation and rear. Band course between basement and ground, moulded string course at lintel height, cornice, blocking course, segmental-arched recesses to openings at ground.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 steps with cast-iron handrail to panelled door to centre; plate glass rectangular fanlight above. Windows to flanking bays and to basement.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: altered; 2-bay; bay to left replaced with narrow modern glazed door and rectangular plate glass fanlight above.
12-pane timber sash and case windows to ground, 9-pane sash and case windows to basement, principal elevation. Piended slate roof; square-rendered with coping wallhead stack to SE; rendered and coped stack to NW.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping to NE; tall rubble garden walls to rear.
The original handrail to the steps survive. An unsympathetic modern timber balcony has been erected to give access to the rear door of
No 1. The house was possibly divided before 1960. This listing includes No 1A and 1B West Brighton Crescent.
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