Description

John C Hay, dated 1875. 4-storey with attic, Scots Baronial corner tenement with shops at ground floor, part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; corbel table at 3rd floor forming segmental-arched hoods to 2nd floor windows, extended down at 4th bay on Argyle Place to form hood to 1st floor window; crowstepped gables; long and short quoins; raised and lugged window surrounds; chamfered reveals.

E (ARGYLE PLACE) ELEVATION: 5-bay above shops (for corner bay see N elevation). 2 shopfronts to outer left with cast iron columns and capitals; remaining shopfronts altered. Bipartite windows in bay to outer left; round-arched single window in gablehead. Bipartite windows in 4th bay, advanced at 2nd and 3rd floors and attic; round-arched windows and circular "RW 1875" monogram in gablehead. Single windows in remaining bays with gabled and finialled dormer with round-arched bipartite window.

N (ARGYLE PARK TERRACE) ELEVATION: 3-bay architraved doorway to shop at ground floor; shopfront altered. Slightly recessed bowed corner bay to outer left breaking eaves in towerhead with conical roof; bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors, 1st floor window corniced and plaster flanked; single window at 3rd floor; pedimented and finialled dormer window at attic; conical roof with finial. Single windows in remaining bays; round-arched bipartite window in gablehead.

4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced gablehead and mutual gable stacks; moulded cans; gabletted skewputts to E and beaked to N; some original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 31-40 (inclusive nos) Argyle place, 1-5 (inclusive nos) Argyle Park Terrace and 1-15 (odd nos) Roseneath Terrace. Designed for the builder, John Pyper.

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 (c.1840-1925) was an architect who practised exclusively in Edinburgh. He designed a number of tenements in Marchmont between 1974 and 1882.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '40-43 (inclusive nos) Argyle Place'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796294

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