Sports Union, University Of Edinburgh, 48 Pleasance, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 January 2006. Tenement.
Sports Union, University Of Edinburgh, 48 Pleasance, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-chimney-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 January 2006
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Henry F Kerr, 1893. 3-storey and attic, near symmetrical, 3-bay, bargeboarded Arts and Crafts corner tenement, (currently University of Edinburgh Sports Union, 2007). Squared, snecked and stugged sandstone, ashlar margins, rubble to rear. Gabled outer bays with canted oriel bay windows to 1st storey, central, advanced, corbelled, harled sections to upper storeys and half-timbering to apices.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: W elevation (The Pleasance): central basket-arched doorpiece with roll-moulded architrave with 2-leaf timber-panelled door with fanlight above. Flanking hoodmoulded, wide shallow-arched window openings with deep moulded chamfer and with 3-light windows with timber transoms and mullions. Some bipartite windows.
Predominantly 4-pane over plate glass timber sash and case windows to upper storeys, multi-pane glazing to ground. Grey slate roof. Corniced wallhead stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: timber balustraded stair, Some 5-panel timber doors and simple decorative cornicework. Arch at 1st floor landing with decorative corbels.
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