1 West Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House.

1 West Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
floating-rafter-grove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
House
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John Baxter, circa 1826 with later alterations. Single bay with basement, 3-bay classical house, now subdivided by floor. Polished ashlar to ground, droved and stugged ashlar to basement, harled side (SE) elevation and rear. Band course between basement and ground, moulded string course at lintel height, cornice, blocking course, segmental-arched recesses to openings at ground.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 steps with cast-iron handrail to panelled door to centre; plate glass rectangular fanlight above. Windows to flanking bays and to basement.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: altered; 2-bay; bay to left replaced with narrow modern glazed door and rectangular plate glass fanlight above.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to ground, 9-pane sash and case windows to basement, principal elevation. Piended slate roof; square-rendered with coping wallhead stack to SE; rendered and coped stack to NW.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping to NE; tall rubble garden walls to rear.

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