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2, 3, 4 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9393 / 55°56'21"N

Longitude: -3.1957 / 3°11'44"W

OS Eastings: 325405

OS Northings: 672451

OS Grid: NT254724

Mapcode National: GBR 8NL.5D

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WZD7

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ3+PP

Entry Name: 2, 3, 4 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 2-4 (Incl Nos) Warrender Park Terrace Including Railings

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371717

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30645

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Marchmont, 2, 3, 4 Warrender Park Terrace

ID on this website: 200371717

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Edward Calvert, 1878. 5-storey and basement with 5th storey as mansard attic, 5-bay tenement with Baronial details, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. String courses at 1st floor and above 3rd floor; crowstepped gables; stop-chamfered reveals.

N ENTRANCE elevation: architraved segmental-arched doorways with recessed polished granite colonnettes and foliate capitals in 2nd and 4th bays; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Single windows above in 2nd bay: pedimented dormerhead and finial at 4th floor. Doorway in 4th bay, flanked to left by simpler roll-moulded segmental-arched doorway with panelled door and plate glass fanlight; bipartite windows above to each floor and in 3rd (centre) bay; single windows in both bays at 4th floor set in corbelled panel overstepping ciphered panel and linked above by gablehead. Full-height canted windows in bays to outer left and right, corbelled to square at 4th floor; tripartite windows with single lights to returns at 4th floor; gableheads above. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped mutual stacks; moulded eaves guttering. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings to area and steps up to entrances.

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