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Victoria Park Hotel, 221 Ferry Road, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9733 / 55°58'23"N

Longitude: -3.1915 / 3°11'29"W

OS Eastings: 325735

OS Northings: 676229

OS Grid: NT257762

Mapcode National: GBR 8P6.07

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.Y4D4

Plus Code: 9C7RXRF5+8C

Entry Name: Victoria Park Hotel, 221 Ferry Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 221 Ferry Road, Victoria Park Hotel with Boundary Walls; EH6 4NN

Listing Date: 30 March 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363908

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26986

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363908

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1860, with later additions. 2-storey 3-bay T-plan gabled Tudor villa on corner site with 3-stage tower attached at NW corner; S and W faces enclosed by out-of-character later additions. Cream squared and snecked sandstone with stugged ashlar dressings.

N (FERRY ROAD) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to right with canted window at ground, bipartite above with hoodmould, arrowslit in gablehead; door to centre bay with narrow closet window to left; tripartite window with hoodmould to left; pair of round-headed 1st floor windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads. Filigreed bargeboards to eaves and gables.

Tower with part-blocked hoodmoulded Tudor doorway at ground; projecting bipartite window at 1st stage with moulded corbel and stone cap; bipartite window to 2nd stage with hoodmould and bracketed balconette; heavy cornice supports crested parapet. Other faces blank with bipartite window to 2nd stage (balustraded apron to W).

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey slates; terracotta ridge tiles; rendered and ashlar stacks; octagonal cans.

Low ashlar saddleback coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

The building with its tower forms a prominent landmark on Ferry Road.

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