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18 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Latitude: 55.9373 / 55°56'14"N

Longitude: -3.1746 / 3°10'28"W

OS Eastings: 326721

OS Northings: 672200

OS Grid: NT267722

Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.G4

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.61J8

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPG+W5

Entry Name: 18 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 18 Blacket Place, Including Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366065

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28312

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 18 Blacket Place

ID on this website: 200366065

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Earlier - mid 19th century. 2-storey symmetrical 3-bay rectangular- plan classical villa. Cream sandstone polished ashlar, heavily rusticated at ground, rubble to sides and rear. Base course; dividing band course; cornice; blocking course; architraves and cornices to 1st floor windows.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance doorcase with fluted Greek Doric columns supporting banded entablature with modillioned cornice; 4-panelled timber door, plate glass fanlight; decorative ironwork balcony above doorcase; single window to 1st floor above and to both floors of flanking bays. Single storey wings adjoining to E and W: 2-pane window and pedestrian gateway to W wing.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; corniced wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped boundary wall to street with bootscraper and evidence of railings.

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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