1 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

Later 19th century, before 1867. 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay Jacobean style house. Stugged sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; stone mullions and timber transoms to architraved windows; eaves band course.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced gabled central bay, chamfered at ground floor, corbelled to square at 1st floor; lancet-headed, architraved and roll moulded doorway with stone bracketed canopy; timber panelled door; lancet-headed bipartite window 1st floor above; blinded arrow slit set in gablehead; block skewputts; obelisk finial. Stone canopies to tripartite windows at ground in outer bays; bipartite windows at 1st floor above breaking eaves in pedimented dormerheads with decorative strapwork; obelisk finials.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floor to outer left and right; corbel with decorative strapwork supports corniced gablehead stack.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: corbel with decorative strapwork supports corniced gablehead stack.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, swept at eaves; block skewputts; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

FORMER CARRIAGE HOUSE: tall narrow gable carriage house to SE; boarded 2-leaf door at ground; single window above; gable detailed as central gable of main building.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low boundary wall to street (railings missing), coped mutual boundary wall to W and high coped rubble mutual boundary wall to E.