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Blackford Hill Lodge, 2 Charterhall Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9259 / 55°55'33"N

Longitude: -3.1936 / 3°11'36"W

OS Eastings: 325514

OS Northings: 670956

OS Grid: NT255709

Mapcode National: GBR 8NR.L6

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X9FZ

Plus Code: 9C7RWRG4+9H

Entry Name: Blackford Hill Lodge, 2 Charterhall Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 2 Charterhall Road, Blackford Hill Lodge

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363918

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26994

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363918

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description

Circa 1895. Single storey L-plan lodge with half-timbered gables and dragon corbels. Variegated pink sandstone, cyclopean rubble with ashlar dressings. Ashlar base course; plain barge boards with wooden tie rods and carved pendants; timber mullions and transoms; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

E ELEVATION: projecting gabled bay to left with corbelled, canted timber oriel with egg and dart cornice, central light round-arched and keystone; half-timbered gablehead jettied out over elaborately carved dragan corbels. Canted ashlar entrance porth with tall parapet set obliquely in re-entrant angle to right.

N ELEVATION: gabled jamb detailed as E gable; tall corniced wallhead stack on return to right.

S ELEVATION: single windows to right and later public conveniences to left.

Multi-pane timber casements and top-hoppers to oriels, 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Red tiled roof with red ridge tiles; 1 wallhead stack (see above), pair of linked drum stacks to ridge.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Statement of Interest

The lodge forms part of the Blackford Hill recreation area, acquired by the City in circa 1890. The cyclopean masonry was introduce to Edinburgh in preceding years by James Gowans and J Campbell Walker.

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