38, 40, 42, 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. 9 related planning applications.
38, 40, 42, Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- high-garret-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1992
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
R Thornton Shiells and Thomson, 1880. Pair of 4-storey, 5-bay Jacobean style tenements at start of curving terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course above ground floor; cornices dividing windows at each floor; raised surrounds extended down to form aprons to each window (excluding ground floor); basket-arched windows; chamfered reveals; bracketted cills at ground.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: each 5-bay block comprising : doorways at 2nd, 3rd, and 4th bays; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; single windows flanking to right and left of 2nd and 4th bays respectively.
Full-height canted windows with shaped pediments, faceted conical roofs, and iron finials in bays to outer right. Identical bay to outer left of No 38. Full height advanced bay with tripartite windows, shaped pediment, French pavilion roof, and cast-iron brattishing to outer left of No 32.
Single windows in remaining bays; 4th floor windows breaking eaves in round-arched pediments at bays 2 and 4, and shaped pediments at central bays.
Predominantly plate glass sash and case windows, with 4-panes to main lights of canted windows. Grey slate roof; lead flashing; corniced mutual stack to nos 32-36; coped and rendered stacks elsewhere; moulded cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1990.
Low boundary wall to street.
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