Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

15-27 (INCLUSIVE NOS) BELLEVUE CRESCENT, AND 5-9 (ODD NOS) CORNWALLIS PLACE, INCLUDING RAILINGSLB28286

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
22/09/1965
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25564 74802
Coordinates
325564, 674802

Description

Thomas Bonnar, revised by David Cousin, built 1882-4. Predominantly 3-storey and basement 28-bay classical terrace with concave curved frontage, stepped down to right, comprising 18-bay linking terrace, flanked by advanced 3-bay terminal pavilion to left (No 17) and advanced 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terminal pavilion to right (Nos 26 and 27). Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; droved ashlar sandstone at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; corniced frieze at impost level at principal floor of terminal pavilions; cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor; cornice at 2nd floor of N terminal pavilion; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor of N terminal pavilion. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, LINKING TERRACE: 18-bay, comprising 3 6-bay terraces stepped down to right; pair of 3-bay houses to left (Nos 18 and 19) with 9-panel timber doors and plate glass rectangular fanlights in bays to left at principal floor; windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Remainder of linking terrace (Nos 20-25) with 9-panel timber doors with 2-pane rectangular fanlights, plate glass at Nos 21 and 25, in every other bay at principal floor; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

NE ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: 3-bay terminal pavilion to left (No 17); giant order Ionic pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; 9-panel timber door with plate glass rectangular fanlight in round-arched recess, centred at principal floor; windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above and basement. 3-bay gable at SE return, with pairs of windows centred at principal floor and floors above, including attic; windows to outer right at principal floor and floors above. 7-bay terminal pavilion to right (Nos 26 and 27) with 3 bays at centre advanced; Ionic pilasters flanking 3 bays at centre, at 1st and 2nd floors, panelled pilasters flanking 3 bays at centre, at 3rd floor. 9-panel timber door (No 27) with radial semicircular fanlight, centred at principal floor; 9-panel timber door (No 26) with 2-pane rectangular fanlight in round-arched recess, in penultimate bay from left, at principal floor. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement, with blind windows in bay to outer left at 1st floor and floors above; architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor, pedimented in central bay. Flagged basement areas.

CORNWALLIS PLACE RETURN TO N TERMINAL PAVILION: 5-bay, becoming 5-9 (odd nos) Cornwallis Place, comprising 9-panel timber door (No 7) with 2-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at basement; 9-panel timber door (No 9) with glazed upper panels and plate glass rectangular fanlight in bay to right of centre at basement; 4-panel timber door (No 5) to outer left at basement. Windows in remaining bays at basement; regular fenestration to floors above; bays flanking centre at principal floor comprising small windows surmounted by 2-pane circular mezzanine windows; narrow windows in bays flanking centre at 1st floor and above; remaining bays at 1st floor with architraved and corniced windows. Adjoining terrace to right, see separate listing (1-3 Cornwallis Place).

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roofs. Pair of peinded dormers, surmounted with consoled pediments at No 17, polygonal piended dormers at Nos 18 and 19, piended dormers and polygonal piended dormers at Nos 20, 22, 23, and 25. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar and rendered ridge, wallhead and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with decorative finials.

Statement of Special Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. Bellevue Crescent feued by the magistrates was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. The elevation signed by Thomas Bonnar is dated 28 July 1818; it was published by Kirkwood but had to be revised after the insertion of St Mary's Church in 1826. Building started in 1819 and the southern section was completed in 1832 (Edinburgh Journal). The northern section was not built until 1882-4, still following the original facade design slightly modified by D Cousin, 1896.

References

Bibliography

Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH (1984), p341; MacRae Heritors 38; Register of Sasines; First Dean of Guild petition, August 7th 1819.

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