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68, 70, 72 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9368 / 55°56'12"N

Longitude: -3.1932 / 3°11'35"W

OS Eastings: 325558

OS Northings: 672171

OS Grid: NT255721

Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.P9

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X1LL

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+PP

Entry Name: 68, 70, 72 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 68-72 (Even Nos) Marchmont Crescent

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371365

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30438

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 68, 70, 72 Marchmont Crescent

ID on this website: 200371365

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

R Roberts, 1883. 4-storey, 4-bay Baronial style tenement, part of curved terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course above ground floor; string course above 1st floor; cornice above 2nd floor; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 doorways to inner right; doorway and single window to inner left; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights.

Full-height canted windows corbelled to square at gablehead in bays to outer left and right; blank rectangular panels to gableheads; gable to outer left crowstepped with stone finial; gable to outer right coped with stone finial. Bipartite windows to inner bays; 4th floor windows breaking eaves in finialled pedimented dormerheads, crowstepped to inner right. Central square blank tablet between 1st and 2nd floors; smaller tablets at same level to canted windows.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; rendered and coped mutual stack; moulded octagonal cans; beak skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 32-66 and 74-104 (even nos) Marchmont Crescent. Designed for William Gray & Sons, joiners, as were the adjacent nos 74-78 (see separate listing).

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