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

46 AND 48 BRIGHTON PLACE, 1A WEST BRIGHTON CRESCENTLB27154

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 30278 73662
Coordinates
330278, 673662

Description

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824; No 46, subdivided in 1926. Mirrored pair of 2-storey with basement, 3-bay classical terraced houses originally with single storey flanking pavilions, slightly set back, that at No 46 raised to 2-storey 1926 (?). Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled to ground (No 48 stonecleaned); stugged ashlar to basement and pavilion (polished ashlar to 1st floor) of No 46; droved ashlar to basement and pavilion of No 48; squared sandstone to ground, harled 1st floor to NE; harled rear elevation of No 46; rubble to SW elevation and rear of No 48. Band course between basement and ground; ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice; blocking course; band courses between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor, coping to pavilion of No 46; coping and band course to pavilion of No 48

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4 steps (ashlar to No 46, with original flanking cast-iron handrail; concrete to No 48) to deep-set modern panelled door to outer bay of each villa; plate glass rectangular fanlights and 1st floor windows above each. Windows at each floor of intermediate bays. Windows to basement in inner bays of each house and to centre of No 46. Window to each floor of wing of No 46; garage door and door to outer of pavilion to No 48.

NE ELEVATION: square rendered modern garage to left; 2 steps to 2-leaf panelled door (entrance to No 1A West Brighton Crescent) to approximate centre; plate glass rectangular fanlight above; narrow consoled doorpiece.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; various to rear, plate glass and 12-pane timber sash and case. Grey slate piended roof. Rendered and coped mutual stack to front; brick and coped mutual stack to rear; wallhead stack to SW; rendered and coped originally wallhead to SE; brick and coped wallhead stack to rear of No 46; shouldered, rendered and coped stack to rear of No 48.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping, formerly with railings.

Statement of Special Interest

No 48 has been stone-cleaned in recent years. No 46 was subdivided in 1926.

References

Bibliography

Appear on Wood's map, 1824. Sutter's map, 1856. W Baird, ANNALS OF DUDDINGSTON AND PORTOBELLO, (1898). Dean of Guild Archives.

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.

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