19 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Terrace of townhouses.

19 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
seventh-chancel-jackdaw
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Terrace of townhouses
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John Lessels, 1870-76. Terrace comprising unified façade of 3-storey and basement, 3-bay astylar renaissance townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind. Advanced 9-bay centrepiece. Sandstone ashlar, droved at basement, channelled at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course. Banded cill course at 1st and 2nd floors, bracketed at windows to 2nd floor. Corniced eaves course. Architraved and corniced doorpieces; rectangular fanlights. Consoled stone balconies at 1st floor on scrolled brackets with cast-iron railings. Segmental arched 1st floor windows, architraved consoled and corniced; small roundels to alternate bays. Architraved surrounds at 2nd floor.

N (END) ELEVATION: 3 storeys, 2 bays to centre of mostly blank elevation. 2-storey corniced canted bay off centre right. Channelled ashlar at ground floor; large recessed panels at 1st and 2nd floors. Corniced eaves course. Moulded architraved surrounds to canted bay.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Corniced ashlar gable end and ridge stacks. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Cast-iron railings on ashlar cope edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron balconies to 1st floor. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: interior typified by decorative classical scheme with fine plasterwork, ceiling roses and well detailed cornicing.

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