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15 Blacket Avenue, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9372 / 55°56'13"N

Longitude: -3.1719 / 3°10'18"W

OS Eastings: 326889

OS Northings: 672188

OS Grid: NT268721

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.Z5

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.71TB

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPH+V6

Entry Name: 15 Blacket Avenue, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 15 Blacket Avenue, Including Boundary Walls and Pedestrian Gateway

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366043

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28296

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 15 Blacket Avenue

ID on this website: 200366043

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1832. 2 storey, 3 bay symmetrical classical house. Cream sandstone polished ashlar; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; architraved windows; dividing band course; cill course to 1st floor windows; cornice; blocking course raised at terminal dies.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway; panelled door; 2 pane fanlight; Ionic columns to pedimented doorpiece; single window to 1st floor above; single windows to flanking bays to both floors.

12 pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND PEDESTRIAN GATE: high coped rubble wall to street; central corniced pedestrian gateway.

Statement of Interest

The house was owned in the 1890s by the publisher William Nelson; it is near the site of the Parkside works of which he was proprietor. The Blacket development was executed from 1825 onwards by eminent Edinburgh surgeons Benjamin and George Bell according to plans by James Gillespie Graham. Blacket Avenue was primarily to serve as access to Newington House, the mansion Benjamin Bell built for himself, which was demolished in 1966: No 15 is one of very few houses built on the Avenue as a result.

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