36 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement block.
36 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- empty-parapet-saffron
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sir James Gowans, 1868-70. 3-storey and attic 3-bay mansard-roofed tenement block (projecting from street line at right) with idiosyncratic details. Polished ashlar (painted to ground). String courses dividing floors; stone bracketed eaves. Decorative bracketed surrounds to windows. Serrated Moorish lintels to 1st floor. Windows to 2nd floor push up bracketed eaves below dormers. Steeply-pitched gabled dormers with pentagonal windows and stone bracketed eaves (date-1868-in central dormer) to attic. Entrance in centre bay: modern glazed 2-leaf timber door in round-arched surround with serrated decoration in spandrels. Tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions at 1st and 2nd floors to centre bay and at ground in flanking bays.
Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Moulded stone ridge. Fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices; decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.
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