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Latitude: 55.9333 / 55°55'59"N
Longitude: -3.22 / 3°13'11"W
OS Eastings: 323880
OS Northings: 671808
OS Grid: NT238718
Mapcode National: GBR 8HN.8K
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.H4X9
Plus Code: 9C7RWQMJ+82
Entry Name: St Denis And Cranley School, 7 Ettrick Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 7 Ettrick Road
Listing Date: 3 February 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363992
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27043
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363992
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: School building
Circa 1874. 2-storey 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with lower 2-storey rear service wing. Cream sandstone, ashlar front, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and sides. Base course; architraved windows; mullions of canted window with cut-away arrises and decoratively carved stops; bracketted cills to windows in right bay; eaves cornices; channelled quoins.
SW (FRONT) ELEVATION: central round-arched and keystoned pilastered doorway, panelled door, semi-circular plate glass fanlight and tiled vestibule, consoled cornice with balustraded parapet serving as apron to 1st floor bipartite window. To left bay full-height canted window with half-piend roof. Bay to right with bipartite window at ground (corniced) and 1st floor.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: lower 2-storey service wing; central wallhead of main block raised between wallhead stacks, tall round-arched stair window with stained glass.
SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; single windows to main block; shouldered wallhead stack to left, rectangular dormer to right; pedimented dormer on return of rear wing.
NW ELEVATION: mirrored SE elevation.
Timber sash and case windows, plate glass glazing to front, 4-pane windows to rear and sides; slate piend and platform roof with lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above); moulded eaves gutter. INTERIOR: timber staircase; ornate cornices to principal rooms.
Tall wall with semi-circular coping to sides, low wall to front with saddleback coping, later gates and railings.
The villa is now part of St Denis and Cranley school and extensive development has taken place in the grounds.
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