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6, 7, 8, 8A Warrender Park Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.938 / 55°56'16"N

Longitude: -3.202 / 3°12'7"W

OS Eastings: 325012

OS Northings: 672315

OS Grid: NT250723

Mapcode National: GBR 8LL.XW

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.S0FN

Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+66

Entry Name: 6, 7, 8, 8A Warrender Park Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 6 7 8 and 8A Warrender Park Crescent Including Railings

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371677

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30610

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 6, 7, 8, 8a Warrender Park Crescent

ID on this website: 200371677

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Circa 1880. 4-storey with basement, 7-bay tenement, forming part of terrace. Coursed lightly stugged grey ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; string course at 3rd floor; architraved round-arched doorways with recessed polished granite columns; panelled 2-leaf doors; plate glass fanlights; chamfered reveals.

N ENTRANCE elevation: steps up to doorways in 2nd, 4th and 6th bays; single windows above those in 2nd and 6th bays, with pedimented dormerheads to 3rd floor windows; paterae set above doorway in 4th bay. Full-height canted windows with pyramidal roofs in 1st and 5th bays. Bipartite windows toeach floor in 3rd and 7th bays; pedimented dormerheads with inset paterae and round-arched panels to 3rd floor windows. Plate glass sash and case windows. grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack; corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans; gabletted skewputts. INTERIORS: not seen 1991

RAILINGS: cast-iron boundary railings to street and steps.

Statement of Interest

This tenement forms part of the $220,000 scheme initiated by the builders W & D Macgregor for the blocks of tenements now comprising Warrender Park Crescent, Marchmont Street, Warrender Park Road, and Alvanley Terrace.

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