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

54-62 (EVEN NOS) PALMERSTON PLACE, INCLUDING RAILINGSLB29478

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
27/10/1964
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 23956 73616
Coordinates
323956, 673616

Description

John Chesser, 1877-1880. 3-storey with basement and attic row of terraced houses with 3-storey canted bays. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone to basement. Base course; band course between ground and 1st floors and 1st and 2nd floors, corniced at canted bays; dentilled cornice, with blocking course at canted bays. Coped skews; consoled cornice to keystoned, depressed-arch doorpieces.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 54-60: 4 2-bay houses. Window beneath oversailing platt to bay to left at basement; door with fanlight to centre (to right of platt); light to centre of canted bay at right, with steps down from street; ashlar steps and entrance platt to doorpiece to bay to left at ground; pilastered entrance to deep-set panelled timber door with narrow flanking lights and depressed arch fanlight; single windows to floors above; light to each face of canted bay at right, all 3 floors; variety of dormers at roof (except No 60): modern slate-hung 2-light box dormers to Nos 54 and 56; round-headed single-light dormer to No 58 at left, triangular-headed bipartite at right. No 62: 3-bay advanced end house, adjoining No 31 Douglas Crescent. Light to centre of outer, canted bays at basement; part-glazed timber door to left of platt, with window beneath platt; doorpiece, as above, to bay to centre at ground; single window to floors above, with dormer at roof; 3-light canted bays flanking, with canted dormers at roof.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped polished, channelled, mutual sandstone ashlar stacks with tall, moulded cylindrical and octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: spear-headed railings (set in coping) to street and to steps and entrance platts; plain railings to steps to basement from street, at right of each house.

Statement of Special Interest

Part of New Town A-Group. John Chesser was the Superintendent of Works to George Heriot's Hospital between 1858 and 1889. During his term of office large quantities of Heriot's land were feued, including land in the W of Edinburgh. Chesser was responsible for preparing ground and elevation plans for the new buildings. Opulent interiors were designed for many of the houses.

References

Bibliography

OBITUARY - MR JOHN CHESSER in THE BUILDER February 20, 1892, p146;

J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker, EDINBURGH (Buildings of Scotland series), (1984), p 377.

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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