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157 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9254 / 55°55'31"N

Longitude: -3.2338 / 3°14'1"W

OS Eastings: 322997

OS Northings: 670941

OS Grid: NT229709

Mapcode National: GBR 8DR.GD

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.9BBD

Plus Code: 9C7RWQG8+4F

Entry Name: 157 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 157 and 159 Colinton Road

Listing Date: 4 July 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363659

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26815

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363659

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

James Gowans, circa 1890. Double villa; 2-storey, 4-bay square-plan with extension torear; yellow sandstone, squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; raised droved ashlar quoins; band courses above ground floor and at wallhead eaves; chamfered reveals; heavily coped triangular dormerheads, ashlar block brackets.

NW (FRONT) ELEVATION: mirrored about centre; advanced cenrtal bays with panelled entrance doors flanked by narrow side-lights, rectangular plate glass fanlights; ornamental stone brackets to linked hoodmould arching over doors; 2 windows breaking eaves at 1st floor; central wallhead stack corbelled at 1st floor from triangular corbel; 2-storey canted windows breaking eaves in outer bays with pyramidal roofs.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 windows in inner bays at ground floor; 2 windows above breaking eaves; central wallhead stack; 2-bay, 1 1/2 storey T-plan extension with splayed corners facing main block, 1 window per bay, narrow windows under eaves above, hipped roof.

SW AND NE ELEVATION: identical 3-bay elevations, 1 window per bay at each floor, 1st floor windows breaking eaves; 2 wallhead stacks corbelled at 1st floor from triangular corbel flanking central dormerhead, stacks linked by dormer with stone front, ashlar mullioned bipartite window to front, single windows to sides. Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane upper sashes, some upper sashes with small-pane border (formerly stained glass insets?), 2-pane lower sashes; small rectangular panes of coloured glass in sidelights to doors; piend and platform roof, green salte, lead flashings, 2 polygonal cupolas in platford, 4 corniced wallhead stacks (see above), ornamental cans (some altered); moulded cast-iron eaves gutters.

INTERIORS: not seen in 1992.

Coped rubble boundary wall to SW and NW, stepping down towards the front, some decorative cast-iron railings and gate remain at No 157.

Statement of Interest

The pair show remarkable similarities in composition and detailing to the block of model dwellings Gowans designed for the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition, as illustrated in his pamphlet MODEL DWELLING HOUSES (Edinburgh, 1885, 1886). Some confusion exists as to the buildings' date. Although allegedly dating from 1889, which is when they first appear on the PO map, they are not shown on the 1893/4 issue of the OS maps.

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