8 James Street, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. House.

8 James Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
House
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1855 with later alterations. Terraced mirrored pair of 2-storey classical houses of 3 bays each, terminating wider terrace. Ashlar at ground and droved at 1st floor; snecked rubble to side and rear elevations. Base course (no longer visible at no 7), apron to ground floor windows, band course, panelled apron and cill course to 1st floor, cornice (overstepped by terrace to left) and blocking course. Architraved windows, architrave extending to base course, at ground floor.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-bay (grouped 2-2-2). Corniced, pilastraded doorpiece with 4-panelled doors at centre, plate glass fanlights and windows at 1st floor above each. Windows to each floor in each bays.

NE ELEVATION: M-gabled with blinded window to extreme left at 1st floor.

NW ELEVATION: later 2-storey piend-roofed extension to centre, with further single storey monopitch addition; a further singe storey addition to outer left of No 8.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to front, 12-pane timber sash and case windows to rear. Slate double-pitched roof with ashlar skews dividing properties; gablehead stacks and to roof apex of rear extension.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping. Rubble coped to rear.

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