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Summary

Description

Circa 1840 and later alterations. 2-storey with basement, 9-bay terraced group of classical houses, now subdivided. Polished ashlar, harled N elevation; squared sandstone to rear. Base course, band course between basement and ground, cill courses to ground and 1st floor, cornice and blocking course; moulded architraves, panelled aprons to ground, cornices at 1st floor.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 3-3-3. BAYS TO CENTRE: advanced; pilasters between bays at ground (Doric) and 1st floor (dentilled capitals). Round-arched architraves to ground. 6 steps to deep-set panelled door at bay to right; plate glass semicircular fanlight and window at 1st floor above; window to each floor of bays to left. Cast-iron balcony/window guard (trellis design with curvilinear tendril upper border, tendril brackets supporting) to 1st floor, advanced at bay to centre. Modern glazed door to centre at basement with in segmental-arched opening; segmentally-arched window to left bay. OUTER BAY GROUPS: identical, except left bay group has cast-iron balcony/window guard at 1st floor (lattice with key pattern upper border). 6 steps (now modern concrete to No 35) to deep-set panelled door, rectangular bordered fanlight and window at 1st floor above; window to each floor of bays to left. Door to centre at basement with glazed panels to upper section, segmental -arched doorpiece, and margin to window at bay to left.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994. Projecting staircases left of centre of each 3-bay house. Round-arched windows at ground.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to Nos 35, 37,41 and 45; plate glass timber sash and case windows to No 39; 4-lying pane timber sash and case windows to No 43. Possibly later dormers to each house to rear. Purple slate M-roof, polished ashlar and coped wallhead, mutual stacks. Pierced polished ashlar parapet above cornice of bay group to centre, raised tablet section to centre bay of group. Ashlar coped mutual stacks to rear; ashalr wallhead stacks to NE elevation, front and rear, harled to NE.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping. Good railings to front area of Nos 35 and 37; to steps of No 39; to front area of No 43 and 45.

Statement of Special Interest

Nos 35, 37 and 41 have been stone-cleaned. No 35 is no longer a residential building but is used by the Portobello Unionist Club.

No 43 was subdivided in 1973.

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