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12, 13 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9386 / 55°56'18"N

Longitude: -3.2003 / 3°12'1"W

OS Eastings: 325116

OS Northings: 672378

OS Grid: NT251723

Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.7N

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TZ6S

Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+CV

Entry Name: 12, 13 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 12 and 13 Marchmont Street

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371614

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30575

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 12, 13 Marchmont Street

ID on this website: 200371614

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Edward Calvert, 1883. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement with Barional details, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked orange sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course at 1st floor; relieving arches and roll-moulded basket-arches to ground floor openings in central bays; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves; chamfered reveals.

W ENTRANCE elevation: doorway with single window flanking to right in 2nd bay; single windows above; 3rd floor window set in corbelled panel with crpwstepped dormerhead linked to wallhead stack. Doorway in 3rd bay; single windows above; pedimented dormerhead with stone finial. Full-height canted windows corbelled to square at gablehead in bays to outer left and right. Relieving arch at 2nd floor between 2nd and 3rd bays. 4-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped wallhead stack; scroll skewputts and stone finials to gableheads.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Low boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Designed for Knox and Henderson, developers.

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