53 Regent Street, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House.
53 Regent Street, Portobello, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- peeling-buttress-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Early 19th century with later small addition to SE. Single storey with basement, 3-bay classical house on corner of Straiton Place and Regent Street. Painted polished ashlar to ground, squared rubble interspersed with droved ashlar to basement level; squared sandstone to side elevation (Straiton Place), harled to blank rear elevation. Broad dividing band course, cornice and blocking course; moulded architraves to Regent Street elevation.
W (REGENT STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4 steps with original plain cast-iron handrails to centre; deep-set panelled door in architraved doorpiece with radial rectangular fanlight above. Windows to flanking bays at each level.
N (STRAITON PLACE) ELEVATION: windows to each bay irregularly disposed. Basement not fully exposed.
12-pane timber sash and case windows to ground floor, 6-pane to basement. Graded slate piended roof; rendered and coped wallhead stacks to side elevations and rear.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: rendered and coped walls with fleur-de-lys headed railings.
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