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Summary

Description

Edward Calvert, 1888. 5-storey corner tenement block with Scottish 17th century details; shops at ground floor (Bruntsfield Avenue elevation); cream sandstone, coursed and snecked rubble, ashlar dressings, painted shopfronts; 1st and 2nd floor cill courses; eaves band; incised lintels and bracketted cill course to 2nd floor windows; attic windows and canted windows with ornamental finialled dormerheads; full-height canted windows corbelled to square in gablehaded dormers; T-section panelled wall- hed stacks with roundel morifs corbelled from 2nd floor with horizontal ashlar and rubble banding; stone pilaster and capitals to shopfronts. SW (BRUNTSFIELD AVENUE) ELEVATION: 6-bay including angle bay; 3 projecting shops at ground floor with fluted pilasters, varied foliate capitals, blank fascia and cornice; 2-leaf panelled shop door in chamfered corner to left, 4-storey canted window above with ogee roof; shopfront in centre with recessed door to left; outer shopfront with door to right; alternating blank bays and bays with single windows to each bay above; corbelled wallhead stack in central bay; bay to outer right set-back with curved corner, single window per floor.

NW (MONTPELIER) ELEVATION: 5-bay tenement to left with full-height canted windows in outer bays, single windows in bays to centre, central door, rectangular fanlight and border glazing, with wallhead stack above. 6-bay tenement to right (excluding corner bay); full-height canted window to left; blank bay with corbelled wallhead stack to right; 2 bays of single windows to right of centre; bay of single windows to left of centre; paired doors off-centre with square fanlight (border glazing No 19), blank bay above with plain wallhead chimney flanked by attic windows with scrolled shoulder above.

Plate glass sash and case windows; shopfronts upper border of 6-pane, fixed plate glass windows (some panes coloured) below, timber mullions in corner shop, ornamental vent openings at top of frames; green slate roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above).

INTERIORS: not seen 1992.

Low boundary wall to Montpelier, some cast-iron railings.

Statement of Special Interest

B Group with Nos 158 to 174 Bruntsfield Place, 2 Bruntsfield Avenue and Nos 4 to 20 Bruntsfield Avenue. The design and detailing of the shopfronts and elevations echo the above group, all designed by Calvert and built by John Oliver and thus forming a homogeneous town planning exercise.

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