50 West Port, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 April 1986. Police and fire stations. 1 related planning application.
50 West Port, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- turning-flue-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1986
- Type
- Police and fire stations
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Morham, 1884. 4-storey and basement 5-bay tenement block, with Scots Baronial details. Squared and snecked bull-faced cream sandstone with polished dressings. Stepped string course between ground and 1st floors; corbelled course between 2nd and 3rd. Windows in chamfered surrounds. Advanced centre bay with stone steps to 2-leaf timber boarded door in moulded stop-chamfered surround; bipartite window to 3rd floor with date (1884) in segmental pediment; crowstepped gable with corniced gablehead chimney. Shoulder-arched former entrance to fire station to right, with 4-light stone-mullioned window above. Bipartites to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors and pedimented gableheads breaking eaves in outer bays. Stone-mullioned and transomed canted window to ground and basement to outer left.
Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.
BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: spear-headed railings on low ashlar-coped boundary wall; decorative finials (axe to right) marking entrance.
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