Description

Circa 1880. 4-storey Jacobean corner tenement block with shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; incised eaves course; basket-arched windows, breaking eaves at 3rd floor; raised surrounds and cornices; long and short quoins.

N (WARRENDER PARK ROAD) ELEVATION: 3 altered shopfronts at ground; doorway to tenements with panelled door and plate glass fanlight. 3 bays and semi-circular corner turret above; bipartite windows in bay to outer right. Single windows in remaining bays; shaped pediment to 3rd floor window to centre left. 3 single windows to every floor of corner turret to outer left; central semi-circular and 2 shaped pediments to 3rd floor windows; fishscale conical roof.

E (CHALMERS CRESCENT) ELEVATION: blank gable wall.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: bipartite windows in bay to outer left; single windows in remaining bays.

W ELEVATION: crowstepped gable adjoining Nos 12-16 Warrender Park Road (see separate listing).

4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; scrolled shoulders to coped wallhead stacks; corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Statement of Interest

Formns continuous irregular terrace with 12-30 (even nos) Warrender Park Road and 22-30 (even nos) Marchmont Crescent.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17803670

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)