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Ravelston Garden is a 1930s Art Deco development of residential buildings, between Craigleith Avenue North and South, in the suburb of Ravelston in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was designed by Andrew Neil and Robert Hurd , 1935–36, and consists of three white- harled International Style blocks of 4-storey flats.
Colony houses were built as double flats, upper and lower, with the upper flat's front door on the opposite side to the lower flat's front door, allowing each flat to have a front garden. In some areas, many upper Cottage Flat owners have converted their attic space in to additional living accommodation resulting in the property being more ...
Ramsay Garden is considered a very desirable address. Despite its position adjacent to the Castle Esplanade and overlooking Princes Street Gardens it is normally very peaceful, particularly in the inner courtyard and upper garden. Some of the apartments are let out as holiday accommodation. [19] It is a minor feature in some guides to Edinburgh.
The area was the estate of Mortonhall House, a fine country mansion house of 1769, with an exceptional interior. It is thought to be designed by the Edinburgh architect, John Baxter, with interior work added by Thomas Bonnar. [1]: 490–491 The main house has been converted into offices and flats.
Cables Wynd House, better known as the Leith Banana Flats [1] [2] or the Banana Block [3] because of its curved shape, is a nine-storey local authority housing block in Leith, Edinburgh. The building, in fact, has ten storeys. The ground floor is called Cables Wynd and the nine floors above constitute Cables Wynd House.
The original name of the group of three blocks was "Comiston Luxury Flats". [1] They boasted outstanding views across Edinburgh, [4] and offered a much better place to live than the slums of the inner city. However, a short while after their completion several problems were drawn into attention such as dampness, and after the 1970s the original ...
Afternoon in March in the centre of Regent Gardens, Edinburgh. The Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens (informally called Regent Gardens, and previously known as the Calton Hill Pleasure Ground and the Large Garden) are private communal gardens in the New Town area of Edinburgh, EH7.
Cottage flats, also known as four-in-a-block flats, are a style of housing common in Scotland, where there are single floor dwellings at ground level, and similar dwellings on the floor above. All have doors directly to the outside of the building, rather than into a 'close', or common staircase, although some do retain a shared entrance.