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15 Montpelier

A Category C Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9372 / 55°56'13"N

Longitude: -3.2096 / 3°12'34"W

OS Eastings: 324535

OS Northings: 672233

OS Grid: NT245722

Mapcode National: GBR 8KM.C5

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.N1T9

Plus Code: 9C7RWQPR+V5

Entry Name: 15 Montpelier

Listing Name: 15 Montpelier

Listing Date: 3 February 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 399417

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB50853

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200399417

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Edward Calvert, 1888. 5-storey, 5-bay tenement with Scottish 17th century details and full height canted windows to outer bays. Coursed and snecked cream sandstone, ashlar dressings. 1st floor cill course; incised lintels and bracketed cill course at 2nd floor; eaves band. Central door with rectangular fanlight with border glazing; blank bay above with T-section ashlar and rubble banded stacks with roundel motifs corbelled from 2nd floor. Attic windows with ornamental finialled dormerheads; canted windows corbelled to square decorative gableheaded dormers.

Plate glass set in timber sash and case windows. Green slate roof, lead flashings. Cast-iton rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Nos 17-19 Montpelier and 22-26 Bruntsfield Avenue, Nos 158-174 Bruntsfield Place, 2 Bruntsfield Avenue and Nos 4-20 Bruntsfield Avenue. The design and detailing of the elevations echo the above group, all designed by Calvert and built by John Oliver and thus forming a homogenous town planning exercise. The tenement was built as part of a development which followed the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition, and may have made use of stones from the exhibition buildings, although it has not been possible to substantiate this.

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