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50, 52, 54 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9373 / 55°56'14"N

Longitude: -3.1929 / 3°11'34"W

OS Eastings: 325578

OS Northings: 672222

OS Grid: NT255722

Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.R4

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X1R7

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+WR

Entry Name: 50, 52, 54 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 50-54 (Even Nos) Marchmont Crescent

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371362

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30435

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 50, 52, 54 Marchmont Crescent

ID on this website: 200371362

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

R Roberts, 1881. 4-storey, 5-bay Baronial style tenement, part of curved terrace. Squared and snecked snadstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course above ground floor; dividing string courses above 1st and 2nd floor; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway and single window to inner right; doorway and bipartite window to inner left; central doorway; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Full-height canted windows corbelled to square crowstepped gableheads with stone finials in bays to outer left and right; blank rectangular panels in gableheads. Central advanced 3-storey bay corbelled at 1st floor with tripartite windows at all floors; 4th floor window breaking eaves in stone finialled gable with circular floral patera. Single windows in remaining bays; 4th floor windows breaking eaves in pedimented dormer to inner right, and shouldered wallhead stack to inner left.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped and rendered mutual stack; corniced mutual stack to N; moulded octagonal cans; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods; beak skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuyous irregular terrace with 32-48 and 56-104 (even nos) Marchmont Crescent. Nos 50-54 were designed for William Gray & Sons, joiners.

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