Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

3 AND 4 NORTHFIELD GARDENSLB49044

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
08/12/1987
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 29024 73491
Coordinates
329024, 673491

Description

Reginald Fairlie, G Reid & J Smith Forbes, 1921. 3-storey, 5-bay Local Authority tenements of 12 flats each. Outer bays advanced. Snecked rubble with darker rubble window dressings. Rubble cill-band to 2nd floor beween advanced bays. Central timber panelled door in ashlar-moulded doorway below blocked canopy. Regular fenestration of predominantly bipartite windows. Rubble voussoirs to ground floor windows. Low quadrant links with arched opening, red tile voussoirs, string course, blocked eaves and red pantiled skews.

Plate glass in sash and case windows (formerly 12-pane glazing). Piended broad-eaved roof; bell-cast eaves to projecting end bays; grey slate. Tall rubble chimney stacks with cornice; projecting shouldered chimney breast to wallhead, breaking eaves.

Statement of Special Interest

Group with 3 and 4 Northfield Gardens. All four tenements form a linked crescent. Built under the 1919 Housing Act following a competition covering four areas of proposed local authority housing. The competitions for all the areas, which were judged by Sir John Burnet, were won by Messrs A K Robertson & T Aikman Swan. However, the planning committee decided that no firm of architects should be appointed to carry out more than two schemes, so Fairlie, Reid & Forbes, whose designs had been awarded 3rd place, were appointed to do the Willowbrae Road scheme. It is not made clear in THE BUILDER whether they were obliged to adopt the winning design, or allowed to use their own.

References

Bibliography

Dean of Guild Drawings, 10th November 1921. OS Map, 1932. THE BUILDER, 5th September 1919, p237, and more generally 19th September 1919, p291. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker: BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND: EDINBURGH (1988), p565.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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