Description

Peddie and Kinnear, built James Watherston, 1878-9. Terrace comprisingfied façade of 3-storey and basement townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar; droved ashlar at basement. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course. Bracketed corniced eaves course. Architraved doorpieces with rectangular fanlight. Moulded, bracketed cill course to ground, 1st and 2nd floors. Corniced tri-partite, 1st floor windows, round arched with Corinthian column mullions; pilasters to sides and entablature. Architraved surrounds at 2nd floor . Stone balconies at 1st floor supported by deep stone brackets with cast-iron railings.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Double pitch M-section roof. Corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar cope edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Well detailed classical townhouses designed by the eminent practice of Peddie and Kinnear. This row of later Victorian terraces demonstrates some of the best of their type with bolder and well detailed use of Classical Renaissance sources, which Peddie and Kinnear handled masterfully.

Peddie and Kinnear were an extremely successful Edinburgh practice gaining a large number of high profile public and commercial commissions including churches, hydropathics, poorhouses and numerous banks and hospitals. They also began to build speculatively, and developed high quality residential schemes from the 1860s onwards. The partnership was always forward looking and the adoption of the Greco-Italian style for this development is typical of the grander essays in this style used in their commercial buildings, especially banks.

(List description revised 2009 as part of re-survey.)

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806194

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