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

34 AND 36 MARLBOROUGH STREETLB27364

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 30812 73919
Coordinates
330812, 673919

Description

Earlier 19th century with later alterations and additions (now subdivided into two houses). Single storey, with basement, 3-bay classical house with pavilions flanking. Finely droved, polished ashlar dressings; ashlar pavilions, rendered and lined; rubble with droved ashlar dressings to side elevations; harled rear elevation. Broad band course dividing basement from ground, cornice and blocking course; slightly raised quoins to main house.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 steps to pilastered doorpiece with tablet above entablature with deep-set panelled door to centre, plate glass fanlight above. Windows at ground and basement of flanking bays (now blinded at No 34). Pavilions with full-height bowed windows, windows at ground and half-basement.

NE AND SW (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 2 blinded windows; small window in between.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: small single storey extension at bay to centre (property of No 36); windows to flanking bays. Pavilions with gable end and windows at ground.

16-lying-pane timber sash and case windows; plate glass

windows to rear. Grey slate piended roof to main house; piended grey slate roof with gable ends to pavilions (with ridge over bowed window to No 34; curved to No 36). Wallhead stacks (rendered to No 34; rubble and rendered to No 36) to side elevations of pavilions.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALL: partly rubble with coping; partly rendered with coping.

Statement of Special Interest

The house is not shown upon Wood's map, 1824, although BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND notes that it was built in 1816 for the City Chamberlain, Thomas Henderson. The house was called Wellington Lodge. (It is shown under this name on the 1st edition OS map, 1854.) Baird mentions the house and its ownership under Mr Henderson, yet his description as standing "in extensive orchard grounds at the top of Wellington Street facing the main road" (P 321), does not correspond to the site of this building.

References

Bibliography

Wood's map, 1824. Sutter's map, 1856. 1st edition OS map, 1854. Baird, ANNALS OF DUDDINGSTON AND PORTOBELLO, (1898). Gifford, McWilliam, Walker, BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND- EDINBURGH VOLUME, (1991). 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.

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.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

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