Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

41-53 (ODD NOS) NILE GROVELB27673

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
12/12/1974
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24783 71040
Coordinates
324783, 671040

Description

Wardrop Anderson & Browne, 1884. Terrace of 7, 2-storey and attic 2-bay houses with gabled end and centre houses. Queen Anne details, single storey rear brick extensions with mansard roofs, rubble facing to returns. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings to front, stugged rubble with stugged ashlar dressings to rear and sides. Chamfered reveals; ashlar mullions; roll-moulded door surrounds; uniform panelled doors with rectrangular 4-vertical-pane fanlights, tiled vestibules and some interior doors with stained glass. S (FRONT) ELEVATION: gabled centre block, entrance door with open scrolled swan-neck pediment to left, 2 single windows to right; at 1st floor tripartite square oriel with balustraded parapet; bipartite window with semi-circular pediment in gablehead. 2 houses on either side with mirrored elevations of entrance doors linked under dentilled cornice and single window at 1st floor to centre bays; outer bays with canted windows and balustraded parapet at ground floor and bipartite window above (single and bipartite pedimented dormer to right of centre). Gabled end houses with 2 single windows at ground floor; canted oriels with balustraded parapets at 1st floor; bipartite windows with semi-circular pediments in gablehead.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bays to centre and outer bays; single storey brick projections with catslide roofs.

E ELEVATION: entrance door to centre; bipartite window to right; single window at 1st floor above; bipartite timber dormer with semi-circular pediment.

W ELEVATION: as E elevation; glazed lean-to timber porch to entrance door.

Timber sash and case windows, 8- or 6-pane upper sashes, 2-pane lower sashes. Slate roof, red ridge tiles; corniced apex stacks to rear or end gables, mutual corniced stacks, tall tapering cans. Coped skews with scalloped gable ends. Moulded eaves gutters, decorative cast-iron gutterheads and brackets.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides, gatepiers with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, cast-iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

Group with Braid church, 1-10 Hermitage Terrace, 4, 6 Nile Grove, 24, 27 Nile Grove, 29-39 Nile Grove and 9-23 Nile Grove. The terrace formed part of the development of the Braid estate (see notes Nos 1-10 Hermitage Terrace).

References

Bibliography

Dean of Guild 23/5/1884; BRITISH ARCHITECT, 4 July 1884, p7. Gifford et al., EDINBURGH (1984), p623.

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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