Description

Edward Calvert, 1888. 5-storey, 5-bay tenement with Scottish 17th century details and full height canted windows to outer bays. Coursed and snecked cream sandstone, ashlar dressings. 1st floor cill course; incised lintels and bracketed cill course at 2nd floor; eaves band. Central door with rectangular fanlight with border glazing; blank bay above with T-section ashlar and rubble banded stacks with roundel motifs corbelled from 2nd floor. Attic windows with ornamental finialled dormerheads; canted windows corbelled to square decorative gableheaded dormers.

Plate glass set in timber sash and case windows. Green slate roof, lead flashings. Cast-iton rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Nos 17-19 Montpelier and 22-26 Bruntsfield Avenue, Nos 158-174 Bruntsfield Place, 2 Bruntsfield Avenue and Nos 4-20 Bruntsfield Avenue. The design and detailing of the elevations echo the above group, all designed by Calvert and built by John Oliver and thus forming a homogenous town planning exercise. The tenement was built as part of a development which followed the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition, and may have made use of stones from the exhibition buildings, although it has not been possible to substantiate this.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780088

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