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Lodge, Hermitage Of Braid, 69B Braid Road, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9195 / 55°55'10"N

Longitude: -3.2101 / 3°12'36"W

OS Eastings: 324472

OS Northings: 670264

OS Grid: NT244702

Mapcode National: GBR 8KT.8H

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.NGLW

Plus Code: 9C7RWQ9Q+RX

Entry Name: Lodge, Hermitage Of Braid, 69B Braid Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 69B Braid Road Hermitage of Braid Lodge

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363668

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26822

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363668

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1860, tollhouse re-built as lodge 1888. Single storey 3-bay T-plan with rear projection. Cream sandstone, stugged and droved ashlar to front and sides, coursed and squared rubble to rear. Base course; chamfered reveals to canted window; gabled ashlar skews with bracktted skewputs. W (FRONT) ELEVATION: projecting gabled central bay with chamfered corner swept to square and with canted window (1-2-1) with half-piend stone slate roof, projecting shaft to gablehead rising to coped finial; blocked doorway on return to left. Bay to right with modern glazed lean-to entrance porch in re-entrant angle. Bay to left with single window. N AND S ELEVATIONS: gabled with single window and stone finial. E ELEVATION: central lower single storey gabled projection with secondary door on return.

8- pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof with lead flashings; coped central stack.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Statement of Interest

Formerly Morningside tollhouse, situtated at what is now the site of the Braid Church. After the abolition of road tolls in Scotland in 1883, it was bought by Sir John Skelton, owner of the Hermitage of Braid in 1888 and re-erected as a lodge to his estate.

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