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80, 82, 84 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9365 / 55°56'11"N

Longitude: -3.1936 / 3°11'36"W

OS Eastings: 325533

OS Northings: 672138

OS Grid: NT255721

Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.LD

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X1DT

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+JH

Entry Name: 80, 82, 84 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 80-84 (Even Nos) Marchmont Crescent

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371367

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30440

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 80, 82, 84 Marchmont Crescent

ID on this website: 200371367

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

1885. 4-storey, 5-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; corbel table at 4th floor, stepped down to form segmental-arched hood to 1st floor window in bay to inner right; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 doorways and 2 single windows at ground to inner bays; full-height canted windows corbelled to square at crowstepped gableheads to outer left and right; paterae in gableheads. Bipartite windows at all floors to bays to inner right and centre; 4th floor windows pedimented with decorative paterae and finialled. Single windows in bay to inner left; round-arched pediment to 4th floor window.

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

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregualr terrace with 32-78 and 86-104 (even nos) Marchmont Crescent. Designed for John Pyper, builder, as were the adjacent nos 86-90 and 92-104 (see separate listings).

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