16,18 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
16,18 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- crooked-gargoyle-bistre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mid 19th century, with later additions. 2-storey, 8-bay (total) group of houses with Jacobean detailing, originally symmetrical. Finely droved ashlar; broader droved ashlar dressings; rubble side elevations. Base course, cill course to 1st floor, eaves course; slightly raised quoins to advanced bays and to angles.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: consoled and corniced doorways to outer bays and to 3rd and 6th bays; panelled doors 2-pane rectangular fanlights above. Single windows at 1st floor and to each floor of flanking bays. Penultimate bays advanced with round-arched windows set in gablehead with 3rd storey.
SE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen; projections to Nos 16 and 22.
8-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with some original flush skylights; large bowed and slate-hung dormer window to No 18, breaking symmetry. Moulded coping to skews; block skewputts; stone finials. Coped skews to gable ends with trefoil skewputts. Corniced ashlar stacks to front pitch to each house and to gableheads (now lined render to No 22); moulded octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS: sandstone with coping; pedestrian gateways adjoining to outer left and right.
Detailed Attributes
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