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14, 15, 16 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9392 / 55°56'21"N

Longitude: -3.1969 / 3°11'48"W

OS Eastings: 325333

OS Northings: 672443

OS Grid: NT253724

Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.YF

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VZV9

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ3+M6

Entry Name: 14, 15, 16 Warrender Park Terrace, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 14-16 (Incl Nos) Warrender Park Terrace Incl Railings

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371721

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30649

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Marchmont, 14, 15, 16 Warrender Park Terrace

ID on this website: 200371721

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Probably Edward Calvert, circa 1880. 5-storey and basement with 5th storey as mansard attic, 5-bay tenement with Baronial details, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked pink sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. String courses at 1st and 4th floors; corbel table stepped down to 3rd floor; shaped gables to outer bays; stop-chamfered reveals.

N ENTRANCE elevation: shouldered roll-moulded 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; stylised dormerhead at 4th floor. Doorway in 4th bay, flanked to left by simpler roll-moulded doorway with panelled door and plate glass fanlight; bipartite windows above to each floor and in 3rd (centre) bay; 3rd and 4th bays linked above by crpwstepped dormerheads and wallhead stack. Full-height canted windows in bays to outer left and righ, corbelled to square at 4th floor; tripartite windows with single lights to returns at 4th floor; fielded gableheads above.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped wallhead stack, partly rendered; coped mutual stacks; scroll skewputts. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

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

Statement of Interest

Probably designed for the consortium of developers, Henderson, Nisbet, Bowie, and Calvert (see Cant).

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