Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

10 CHALMERS CRESCENT WITH BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERSLB30349

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
15/01/1992
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25710 72142
Coordinates
325710, 672142

Description

Circa 1868. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan baroonial style villa with round castellated tower adjoining. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble; coursed stugged ashlar at W elevation. Crowstepped gables; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central pilastered doorpiece with cornice and corniced stepped pediment above; round-arched doorway with keystone and rope moulding: deep-set panelled door; plate glass fanlight; bipartite window at 1st floor above. Full-height canted window with dividing cornice and blocking course flanking to outer left; single window at gablehead.Advanced tripartite window with cornice and crenellations flanking to inner right; tripartite window above.

ROUND TOWER: 3-storey tower to outer right; large base course; dividing bands; single windows at ground and 1st floors; 5 single windows encircling 3rd floor breaking eaves; surmounted by machiolations. dividing band, and crenellations.

S ELEVATION: single window at ground floor; fire exit at 1at floor; iron fire escape to eaves; M-gabled.

N ELEVATION: M-gabled single storey service wing with basement; decorative cast-iron staircase to ground floor; single window at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: large unsympathetic flat-roofed extension at ground floor; round-arched tripartite stair window at 1st floor centre; single windows flanking to outer left and right; small single window set in gablehead to outer right.

Plate glass sash and case windows; grey slate gabled roof; 2 round-arched timber pedimented dormers to W; single pedimented dormer to E; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods; 2 small grotesques at eaves to W; 3 corniced gablehead stacks; moulded octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: bipartite vestibule door with glazed upper panels and leaded fanlight panels; decorative plaster cornices in vestibule and hall; carved wooden bookcase in library.

Low sandstone rubble wall to street, rising to N; large corniced ashlar gatepiers to S. High rubble mutual boundary walls.

References

Bibliography

PO Directory 1869.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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