Description

John Watherstone, 1859. 4-storey and basement plain classical end of terrace pavilion block, 5 bays to Castle Terrace, 5 to Cambridge Street. Grey ashlar, channelled to ground floor, rusticated to basement. Dividing band between basement and ground and between ground and 1st floors; Moulded cornice between 2nd and 3rd floors; moulded eaves cornice. 1st floor windows in corniced architraves with panelled aprons; 2nd floor in moulded surrounds. Regularly fenestrated. Stone steps and platts over-arching basement areas; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in centre bays to Castle Terrace and to Cambridge Street.

Some 12-pane glazing, remainder plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced ashlar stack with circular cans to ridge; scrolled wallhead stack to Cambridge Street.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: decorative finials to cast-iron railings on low ashlar boundary wall.

Statement of Interest

Built on the glebe of St Cuthbert's Church. William Burn produced a feuing plan for the Grindlay Estate in 1825, taking in the glebe. The plan of this area more or less as built appears on Wood's 1820 map of Edinburgh. Thomas Hamilton produced elevations for Castle Terrace in 1825, Burn in 1826. The original design may have been intended to mirror the pavilion at Nos 1 and 2 Castle Terrace, with the quadrant block of Nos 3 and 4 continued as a straight block between. However Bryce's St Mark's Unitarian Church (whose lugged ground floor windows Nos 5-7 and Nos 8-12 Castle Terrace echo), built in 1834, intervened. The roadway, altered to take account of the new Western Approach, was laid in 1831.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796176

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