Description

John C Hay, 1882. 4-storey Scottish 17th century style corner tenement with corner tower and shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; string courses above 1st and 2nd floors; crowstepped gables; long and short work to window margins; chamfered reveals.

W (MARCHMONT ROAD) ELEVATION: 6-bay including corner tower bay. Painted masonry piers to shop fronts. Bipartite windows in corner bay above ground floor, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in corniced conical roof with fishscale slates and cast-iron weathervane finial. Single windows in remaining bays. Chamfered angle bay to outer left, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in pedimented and stone finialled dormerhead. Similar bay to inner left. 2 bays to inner right breaking eaves at 3rd floor in gablehead with square tablet inset. Remaining bay breaking eaves at 3rd floor in round-arched pedimented and finialled dormerhead.

S (BEAUFORD ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Painted masonry piers to shop fronts. Bipartite windows in central bay, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in pedimented and finialled dormerhead with roundel inset. Single windows in remaining bays. 2 bays to outer left and right corbelled and slightly advanced above 1st floor, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in gableheads with square tablets inset. square blank tablet with hoodmould above 1st floor of 2 bays to outer right.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; lead flashing; corniced mutual and gablehead stacks; coped and rendered mutual and wallhead stacks; moulded octagonal cans; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 77-121 (odd nos) Marchmont Road and 2-6 (inclusive nos) Beaufort Road. Designed for William Outerson, builder.

The period between 1860 and 1900 saw significant residential expansion in the city of Edinburgh with construction of a number of residential tenement suburbs.

The tenement suburb of Marchmont developed between circa 1876 and 1914

following the feuing of the Warrender family estate (land south of the Meadows).

Marchmont's development can be viewed in two distinct phases, with the first phase, prior to 1900, largely following the plan laid out by David Bryce of 1869. This phase, which saw the construction of streets in the north and east of the site, is characterised by the individual nature of the work by builders and architects who frequently developed only one or two feus at a time. These tenements were built predominantly in the baronial style following guidelines set down in the 1869 feu charter. In the second phase, after 1900, the baronial style recedes and elevations become more uniform.

John Charles Hay, (circa 1840-1925) was an architect who practised exclusively in Edinburgh. He designed a number of tenements in Marchmont between 1874 and 1882.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '123-129 (odd nos) Marchmont Road and 7-10 (inclusive nos) Beaufort Road'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17801191

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