45-49 Forrest Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement block. 7 related planning applications.

45-49 Forrest Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
vast-paling-sage
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Tenement block
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

William Urquart, 1872. 4-storey and attic 5-bay mansard-roofed Baronial tenement block with shops to ground floor Polished coursed ashlar (painted to ground). Continuous cornice to ground floor shops. Roll-moulded stop-chamfered openings. Moulded string course between 2nd and 3rd floors; 2 shops to right with segmental-arched openings on Corinthian columns; timber panelled door to flats with plate glass fanlight in segmental-arched surround to centre; short section of original brattishing to outer left. 3-storey canted windows above in outer right and left bays; wallhead stack corbelled out on chequer-set machicolations to either side of segmental-arched window to centre, flanked by finialled gabled dormerheads with trefoil panels breaking eaves; 3 timber dormers to attic.

Predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Corniced wallhead stack with oblique corners.

Detailed Attributes

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