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Latitude: 55.936 / 55°56'9"N
Longitude: -3.1939 / 3°11'38"W
OS Eastings: 325512
OS Northings: 672077
OS Grid: NT255720
Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.JM
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X287
Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+9C
Entry Name: 83, 85, 87 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 83-87 Marchmont Road
Listing Date: 15 January 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371371
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30444
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 83, 85, 87 Marchmont Road
ID on this website: 200371371
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Probably R Roberts, 1883. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement, part of Scottish 17th century style terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornice above ground floor; roll-moulded door surrounds; panelled doors; plate galss fanlights; 3rd floor windows corbelled; chamfered reveals.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrica. 3 doorways and single window to central bays at ground floor. Full-height canted windows to outer left and right; dividing cornices; outer left bay corbelled to square at gablehead; arrow slit in gablehead; hexagonal pyramidal roof to bay to outer right. Bipartite windows to central bays; decorative lintels to 2nd floor windows; advanced 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in semi-circular pedimented dormerheads. Central framed datestone "1883" above 1st floor.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; central corniced stack with shoulders to wallhead; corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans; scrolled skewputts.
INTERIORS: not seen 1990.
Low saddleback wall to street.
Forms continuous irregular terrace with 77-81 and 89-129 (odd nos) Marchmont Road and 2-10 (inc) Beaufort Road. Probably designed for John Pyper, builder.
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