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March Hall Nursing Home, 3 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9371 / 55°56'13"N

Longitude: -3.169 / 3°10'8"W

OS Eastings: 327072

OS Northings: 672175

OS Grid: NT270721

Mapcode National: GBR 8TM.L6

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.916D

Plus Code: 9C7RWRPJ+RC

Entry Name: March Hall Nursing Home, 3 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 3 Marchhall Crescent, Marchhall Nursing Home Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 29 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389546

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43155

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 3 Marchhall Crescent, March Hall Nursing Home

ID on this website: 200389546

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1854 with modern extensions. 2-storey, L-plan picturesque house in style of Bryce and Burn, with service wing to N;. Stugged, squared and snecked, cream sandstone ashlar. Base course; dividing band course; overhanging eaves; decoratively carved bargeboards.

MAIN HOUSE: W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tripartite doorway in advanced bay to left of centre; panelled door; small-paned fanlight; single window above; single windows to both floors in bay to penultimate left, at 1st floor breaking eaves with pediment; advanced bay to outer left adjoining service wing; single window at ground floor outer right; single, central window above. Advanced, M-gabled, single storey extension in bay to outer right; bipartite window to 1st floor above. S ELEVATION: 3-bay; tripartite window to ground floor in bay to outer left; bipartite window above; M-gabled bays to outer right; advanced window at ground (now linked to modern extension) with pierced parapet forming balcony to bipartite window and doorways to 1st floor above.

SERVICE WING: S ELEVATION: advanced doorway to outer right (re-entrant angle); boarded door; 3-pane fanlight; small single window above; single windows to both floors in bay to outer left; escape stair to doorway at 1st floor level. W ELEVATION: 2-bay; single windows to both floors in bay to outer right; 2 boarded doors at ground to outer left; single window with pediment breaking eaves to 1st floor above.

INTERIOR: ENTRANCE HALL: original patterned tiling to floor; dog-leg stair with finely carved baluster. PRINCIPAL GROUND FLOOR ROOMS to E and S with ornate moulded ceilings, cornices and plasterwork panels to walls with strapwork detailing.

Statement of Interest

Modern nurses' homes adjoining house to S not included in listing.

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