Portsburgh Square, West Port, Edinburgh
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Portsburgh Square, West Port, Edinburgh
Image: © Andrew Abbott Taken: 11 Nov 2022
Category C. Listing reference LB47896. City Engineer's Department, 1900. Quadrangular-plan 4-storey deck-access housing built on falling ground (to N). Cream harled with red painted dressings; squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings to SW block. Concrete balconies with cast-iron railings supported on cast-iron columns. Shoulder-arched open entrances to stairs at corners. Timber boarded doors to flats flanked by bipartite windows. Pedimented and shaped gables breaking eaves at 4th floor. Corbelled corner turret with finialled, slated conical roof to SW.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.946808
Longitude
-3.198785