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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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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.
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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