5, 7, 9 Academy Road, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement.
5, 7, 9 Academy Road, Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- swift-merlon-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Early 19th century. 4-storey and attic 12-bay tenement with pend to right. Cream sandstone, tooled ashlar with polished dressings to front elevation, coursed and squared rubble to side, coursed rubble to rear. Base course; channelled ground floor; band course above ground floor; eaves cornice; pronounced voussoirs to ground floor openings.
SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: bowed bay of 3 windows (centre windows blocked) with basement and half-conical roof to outer right. Round-arched pend flanking to left with stone-flagged forecourt. Common stair and main door flat doorways with panelled doors and rectangular fanlights, reproduction radial astragal patterns to Nos 9 and 13. Regular fenestration to remaining bays. 2 short wallhead stacks; 2 rectangular single dormers with piended roofs.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: round-arched pend and single windows.
NE ELEVATION: truncated gable with paired apex stacks; narrow windows to centre bay.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof with lead flashings; 2 wallhead and 2 apex stacks (see above), mutual stacks. Moulded eaves gutter to Nos 11-13a.
INTERIOR: not seen 1993.
RAILINGS: plain arrowhead railings to front.
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