Valleyfield House, Leven Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2000. Tenement flats.
Valleyfield House, Leven Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- blind-steeple-jay
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2000
- Type
- Tenement flats
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David McGibbon, 1867-70. 4-storey corner block of tenement flats with shops beneath to Leven Street. Splayed at corner, angled return at Glengyle Terrace. Polished ashlar. Cill courses at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Mutuled eaves course. Windows bracketed; stone mullions to bipartites; corniced at 1st floor; slightly battered at 3rd. Ornamented with very high quality chip carving.
W (LEVEN STREET) ELEVATION: 3 shops to ground floor; openings in stop-chamfered, shoulder-arched surrounds. 4 bays above: bipartites in left bay; single windows in centre bays; right bay blind - wallhead chimney stack above. Channelled quoins. Shop door in stop-chamfered shoulder-arched surround on corner; single windows above.
S (GLENGYLE TERRACE) ELEVATION: 6 bays: shop window to ground at left; windows and doors alternate to right; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in corniced, moulded surrounds; stone steps and platts over-sailing basement areas. Bipartites in outer bays above; single windows in 3 centre bays. Bipartites to splayed corner to right.
RAILINGS: spear-headed cast-iron railings mounted on low stone coped wall to basement areas and steps.
Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Rendered stacks at wallhead (splayed) and ridge.
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