74, 76, 78 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

74, 76, 78 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
bitter-solder-bramble
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1992
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

R Roberts, 1883. 4-storey, 5-bay Baronial style tenement, part of curved terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course above ground floor; dividing string courses above 1st and 2nd floors; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway and single window to inner right; doorway and bipartite window to inner left; central doorway; panelled doors; plate glass fanlight. Full-height canted windows corbelled to square crowstepped gableheads with stone finials in bays to outer left and right; blank rectangular panels in gableheads. Central slightly advanced 3-storey bay corbelled at 1st floor with tripartie windows at all floors; 4th floor window breaking eaves in stone finialled gable with circular floral patera. Single windows in remaining bays; with floor windows breaking eaves in finialled pedimented dormers.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced mutual stack; moulded octagonal cans; beak skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

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