Description

Edward Calvert, 1883. 5-storey tenement with 5th storey as mansard attic; baronial; corner tower. Squared and snecked pinkish sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course at 1st floor to N, stepped up from 1st to 2nd floor to W; corbel table at 4th floor to N; chamfered reveals: panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. N WARRENDER PARK TERRACE elevation: 3-bay excluding corner tower to outer right. Architraved doorway with recessed polished granite colonnettes and foliate capitals between 2nd and 3rd bays; relieving arch; decorative ciphered panel above at 2nd floor. Single windows at 1st and 2nd bays; crowstepped dormerhead linking bays. Single windows in 3rd bay; semi-circular dormerhead to 4th floor.

CORNER TOWER: 5-stage; 3 lights to each stage; dividing cornice above ground floor; corbel table above 2nd floor; eaves cornice; candle-snuffer roof with lead finial.

W SPOTTISWOODE STREET elevation: 3-bay; 1st bay advanced with rounded angel to return; roll-moulded doorway flanked to right by single window in 1st bay; single windows above; crowstepped dormerhead linked to wallhead stack. Roll-moulded doorway in 2nd bay; single windows above; crowstepped dormerhead. Full-height canted window corbelled to square at 4th floor in bay to outer right; tripartite window with single lights to returns at 4th floor; stone finial to gablehead above. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack to N; 1 corniced wallhead stack and 1 coped and rendered stack to W; coped mutual stacks; scroll skewputs to bay to outer right to W; scroll-bracketted skewputts elsewhere.

INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Boundary coping to streets with some original railings remaining.

Statement of Interest

Edward Calvert both designed and owned this property.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806301

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)