29 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement block.
29 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- roaming-steel-rye
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sir James Gowans, 1868-70. 4-storey, attic and basement 3-bay mansard-roofed tenement block with idiosyncratic details, including Moorish influence. Polished ashlar. String courses dividing floors; stone bracketed eaves. Round-arched windows to 3rd floor push up bracketed eaves below dormers. Decorative bracketed surrounds to windows. Projecting canted bays with Serliana to ground, tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions and serrated Moorish lintels above, and steeply-pitched gabled dormers with stone bracketed eaves, flanked by small hooded dormers to attic. Stone steps and platts over-arching basement area to centre; timber panelled door with tripartite fanlight above, flanked by sidelights; small hooded dormer to attic.
Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Moulded stone ridge. Fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices; decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.
BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings on low ashlar boundary wall with stone piers marking entrances.
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