Description

Thomas P Marwick, 1888. 4-storey, 5-bay tenement, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked pink sandstone with polished red ashlar dressings. Base course: cill course at 2nd floor; cornice above 2nd floor; pedimented dormerheads to bipartite windows at 3rd floor; facetted pyramidal roofs with lead finials to advanced bays; roll-moulded doorways; panelled doors; chamfered reveals.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway in central bay; plate glass fanlight; bipartite windows to each floor above. Doorway with single window flanking to right flanking to right in 2nd bay; plate glass fanlight; bipartite windows to each floor above. Doorway with single window flanking to left in 4th bay; small-pane fanlight; single windows to each floor above. Full-height 4-light canted windows in bay to outer left: dividing cill and lintel courses; string course at 3rd floor; cornice above. Full-height 2-light canted windows adjoining neighbouring tenement in bay to outer right, detailed as bay to outer left. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack; coped and partly rendered mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

Low boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Designed for the builder, Hugh MacKintosh, along with the neighbouring nos 32-38 Marchmont Road and nos 56-60 and 62-66 Warrender Park Road (see separate listings).

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.

Thomas P Marwick (1854-1927) was an Edinburgh born architect who is noted for significant commissions for clients such as the National Bank and the St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society. In the early years of his career between 1878 and 1889 he designed a large number of tenements in the Marchmont and Bruntsfield areas.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '40-44 (even nos) Marchmont Road'

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632653

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)