1, 2 Gladstone Place, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

1, 2 Gladstone Place, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ghost-portal-juniper
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Dated 1880, built for John Blackie. 4-storey, 8-bay tenement turning tight corner site; bays grouped 1 - 5 - 2, bays 2-5 form corner bow. Polished ashlar sandstone to front; channelled at ground floor; squared and snecked rubble to rear. Base course, band course between ground and 1st floor; moulded and bracketted cill courses to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows, eaves cornice and blocking course. Architraved openings to 1st and 2nd floor; corniced to 1st floor; pedimented consoled window at 3rd bay, 2nd floor.

Entrance door to tenement in outer left bay: panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight and consoled cornice doorpiece. Doors to shops at bays 3, between bays 6 and 7, and at bay 8; each flanked by modern shop windows. Regularly fenestrated upper floors; bipartite windows to 8th bay.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor openings; modern glazing to ground floor. Grey slate piended roof. Rendered and corniced stacks: arch-linked pair over bay 3; single stacks with scrolls at base between bays 4 and 5, 5 and 6.

INTERIOR: not seen (1995).

RAILINGS: cast-iron railings with spearhead finials at No 2 Gladstone Place.

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