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21-21B Blacket Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9357 / 55°56'8"N

Longitude: -3.1735 / 3°10'24"W

OS Eastings: 326785

OS Northings: 672027

OS Grid: NT267720

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.NP

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.721F

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+7H

Entry Name: 21-21B Blacket Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 21 and 21B Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366054

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28305

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 21-21b Blacket Place

ID on this website: 200366054

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Mid - later 19th century. Single storey symmetrical 3-bay square-plan classical villa with basement. Polished sandstone ashlar; stugged rubble to sides and rear. Base course; eaves course; modillioned cornice; blocking course; architraved windows.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps up to entrance; advanced doorpiece with modillioned pediment breaking eaves; architraved doorway; 6-panel timber door with plate glass fanlight; tripartite windows to flanking bays; corniced gateway leading to rear to N; to S, gate leads down steps to 2-storey single bay wing at basement level with timber panelled door to No 21B to ground and a single window to 1st floor above.

6-pane timber sash and case windows flanked on either side by 3-pane sash and case windows to main block; 4-pane timber sash and case window to wing. Grey slate piended roof with central cupola; corniced and shouldered wallhead stacks with octagonal cans; coped stack to rear with octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary walls to street with piers flanking; coped mutual boundary walls with Nos 19 and 23.

Statement of Interest

Dr Benjamin Bell of Hunthill, an eminent Edinburgh surgeon and farmer, speculated on the potential for development in the lands of Newington. In 1806, aware of the demand for countrified dwellings near the city, he advertised his intention to sell 58 plots of land within his 8.5 acres. On his death in the same year his son George Bell, also a surgeon, inherited the land and, in 1825, commissioned James Gillespie Graham to design a plan for new streets within the grounds of Newington House, bounded by the back garden walls of Minto Street, Salisbury Road, East Mayfield and Dalkeith Road. Feus were offered for sale and Blacket Place began to take shape, the houses possibly being built speculatively by one builder or building company. Security was an important feature of the development, with Gothic gates, the octagonal piers of which survive, locked at night and single storey lodges at the entrances from Minto Street and Dalkeith Road.

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