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6 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9376 / 55°56'15"N

Longitude: -3.1736 / 3°10'24"W

OS Eastings: 326786

OS Northings: 672237

OS Grid: NT267722

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.N0

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.701Z

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQG+2H

Entry Name: 6 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 6 and 8 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366059

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28309

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 6 Blacket Place

ID on this website: 200366059

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1851. 2-storey symmetrical 6-bay rectangular-plan classical pair of houses. Polished sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground; stugged masonry to sides and rear. Base course; cornice; blocking course; architraved windows to 1st floor.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorcases in bays to outer left and right with fluted Greek Doric columns supporting entablature; pilasters behind; timber panelled doors; geometric glazing pattern to fanlights; single windows above and to both floors of intermediate bays. Adjoining single storey wings to E and W, the latter adapted to garage use.

12-paned timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with corniced wallhead and mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall with remains of railings to street, bootscraper for No 6; coped rubble mutual boundary wall with

No 4; low coped mutual boundary wall with No 10.

Statement of Interest

Built speculatively by the Edinburgh builders J W and A G Fowler and sold to Mr Thomas Cooper, a merchant and butter factor. Dr Benjamin Bell of Hunthill, an eminent Edinburgh surgeon and farmer, had earlier identified the potential for development of 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, other houses possibly being built speculatively in the manner of No 8. 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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