Including Railings, 5 Roxburgh Street is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 September 2008. Former town houses or flats. 1 related planning application.
Including Railings, 5 Roxburgh Street
- WRENN ID
- buried-fireplace-dock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 September 2008
- Type
- Former town houses or flats
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1800. 2-storey, basement and attic, 12 x 4-bay row of former town houses and flats, situated on Roxburgh Street with return to Drummond Street, (currently offices, 2007). Entrance platts oversailing basements. Stugged ashlar to upper storey, droved ashlar to ground with polished ashlar band courses. Cill course, mutuled cornice, raised cills to ground. Doric pilastered and corniced doorpieces with mostly multi-panelled timber entrance doors with fanlights above. One entrance at Drummond Street. Later, canted and piended dormers.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows to Nos 5 & 7. 4-pane timber sash and case windows to Nos 1 & 3. Grey slates. Raised skews. Ridge and gable stacks.
INTERIOR: (seen 2007). Converted to form interconnected offices. Some decorative plasterwork cornicing and fine plaster detailing. Some staircases with metal balusters and timber handrails.
WALL AND RAILINGS: to W (Roxburgh Street). Low stone base surmounted with spear-headed cast-iron railings with integral gates.
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