56, 58, 60 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Tenement.

56, 58, 60 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
little-parapet-crag
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1992
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Edward Calvert, 1881. 4-storey, 4-bay Baronial style near-symmetrical tenement, part of curved terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course at 1st floor; dividing band above 2nd floor; raised window surrounds; stop-chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 paired roll-moulded doorways to inner right; roll-moulded doorway and single window to inner left; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Full-height canted window in bay to outer left, corbelled to square at crowstepped gablehead with stone finial; circular "JC" monogram panel in gablehead. Full-height canted window to outer right, corbelled to square at gablehead; matching monogram panel inscribed "EC 1881". Single windows in remaining bays. Central crowstepped gable with heavily corniced gablehead stack.

Plate glass sash and case windows, 4-pane to main lights of canted windows. Grey slate roof; corniced mutual stack; moulded cans; stylished skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street; original cast-iron pedestrian gatepiers to No 56.

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