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117-119 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9381 / 55°56'17"N

Longitude: -3.2001 / 3°12'0"W

OS Eastings: 325132

OS Northings: 672319

OS Grid: NT251723

Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.9V

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.T0BM

Plus Code: 9C7RWQQX+6X

Entry Name: 117-119 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 117-119 (Odd Nos) Warrender Park RD & 5 Marchmont Street

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371704

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30634

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Marchmont, 117-119 Warrender Park Road

ID on this website: 200371704

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Alexander Macnaughton, 1881. 4-storey corner tenement block with Baronial details. Coursed orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cill band courses; raised window surrounds; chamfered reveals; roll-moulded corniced or pedimented doorways; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights.

S WARRENDER PARK ROAD elevation: 4-bay with 5th bay at corner to outer left. Doorway in 2nd bay, flanked to right by single window; bipartite windows above, set in advanced corbelled panel above 1st floor; hoodmoulding to 3rd floor; pedimented single window set in crowstepped gablehead (linked to wallhead stack). Doorway in 3rd bay; single windows above. Single windows in 1st bay. Full-height canted window in 4th bay; pediments to ground floor windows. Corner bay: canted with windows to each floor. W MARCHMONT STREET elevation: 3-bay with angle bay to outer right (see above). Doorway in 3rd bay; single windows above. Bipartite windows in 2nd bay; advanced corbelled panel above 1st floor; hoodmoulding to 3rd floor window; pedimented single window set in crowstepped gablehead. Single window in 1st bay. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; pyramidal roofs with iron finials to canted bays; corniced wallhead stack to S; rendered wallhead stack to W; coped mutual stacks; some original rainwater goods including hoppers. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Low boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Designed for Alexander Calder, joiner.

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