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1 Northfield Gardens, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9488 / 55°56'55"N

Longitude: -3.1379 / 3°8'16"W

OS Eastings: 329038

OS Northings: 673442

OS Grid: NT290734

Mapcode National: GBR 2B.Y905

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.RQZZ

Plus Code: 9C7RWVX6+GV

Entry Name: 1 Northfield Gardens, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 1 and 2 Northfield Gardens

Listing Date: 8 December 1987

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369329

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29442

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 1 Northfield Gardens

ID on this website: 200369329

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Craigentinny/Duddingston

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Reginald Fairlie, G Reid & J Smith Forbes, 1921. 3-storey, 7-bay Local Authority tenements of 12 flats each. Rubble with contrasting bull-faced window dressings; harled to top floor. Brick cill-band to 2nd floor. Shallow advanced central entrance bays; central timber panelled door with bracketed canopy; tall arched staircase window all within slightly recessed arch breaking cill-band. Red tile voussoirs to head of arch. Regular fenestration to outer bays; red tile voussoirs to bipartite windows at inner and outer bays of ground floor. Low quadrant links with arched opening, red tile voussoirs, string course, blocked eaves and red pantiled skews.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows (formerly 12-pane glazing). Broad-eaved piended roof; grey slate with terracotta ridge tiles. Tall rubble chimney stacks with brick band and cornice; projecting shouldered chimney breast to wallhead breaking eaves.

Statement of Interest

Group with 3 and 4 Northfield Gardens. All four tenements form a linked crescent. Built under the 1919 Housing Act following a competition covering four areas of proposed local authority housing. The competitions for all the areas, which were judged by Sir John Burnet, were won by Messrs A.K. Robertson & T.Aikman Swan. However, the planning committee decided that no firm of architects should be appointed to carry out more than two schemes, so Fairlie, Reid & Forbes, whose designs had been awarded 3rd place, were appointed to do the Willowbrae Road scheme. It is not made clear in THE BUILDER whether they were obliged to adopt the winning design, or allowed to use their own.

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