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32 Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9339 / 55°56'2"N

Longitude: -3.1706 / 3°10'14"W

OS Eastings: 326962

OS Northings: 671825

OS Grid: NT269718

Mapcode National: GBR 8TN.7B

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.83FT

Plus Code: 9C7RWRMH+HP

Entry Name: 32 Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 32 and 33 Queens Crescent, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390963

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44255

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390963

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1880. 2 storey, 4 bay, symmetrical, pair of classical houses. Cream sandstone polished ashlar; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; channelled quoins; eaves course; cornice.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bipartite windows to ground floor central bays; cornice, arcaded eaves course and incised floreate details to advanced architraves; single windows to 1st floor above; lugged and shouldered advanced architraves with incised floral detail. Single advanced basket arched windows to ground floor in outer bays; 3 light canted windows to 1st floor above with polygonal roofs and cast iron finials. Doorways to recessed porches adjoining houses to E and W; panelled doors.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with modern skylights; pitched roofs to porches with fish scale slating; corniced wallhead and ridge stacks; octagonal moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Queens Crescent is part of the Waverley Park development designed by David Cousin for the landowner Duncan McLaren who was Lord Provost 1851-1854. These houses are grouped around a central residents park.

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