Description

John Chesser, later 19th century. 3-storey with basement, 2-bay plain classical house with piend-roofed canted bay. Polished, coursed, sandstone ashlar, droved at basement. Base course; cill course to 1st and 2nd floors; recessed panels above lights to canted bay at ground and 1st floors; corniced doorpiece comprising abbreviated pilasters flanking margin-framed doorway; margins to 1st floor window above; dentilled cornice.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door beneath entrance platt to bay to left at basement; light to centre of canted bay at right; 2-leaf panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight to doorpiece at bay to left at ground; single window at floors above; light to each face of canted bay at right, all floors.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; rendered gablehead stack at left with original moulded octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys iron railings to oversailing entrance platt and, set in coping, to street.

Statement of Interest

Part of New Town A-Group. Seemingly the work of John Chesser, although the street as a whole was originally conceived as the southern entrance to Grosvenor and Lansdowne Crescents, the overall scheme of which was devised by Robert Matheson. Matheson was the Surveyor of Works in Scotland and had purchased the West Coates estate in 1860 as an investment. Chesser was the Superintendent of Works for the Heriot's Trust.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632158

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey