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Latitude: 55.9343 / 55°56'3"N
Longitude: -3.3757 / 3°22'32"W
OS Eastings: 314152
OS Northings: 672105
OS Grid: NT141721
Mapcode National: GBR 21.Z3L9
Mapcode Global: WH6SQ.33SH
Plus Code: 9C7RWJMF+PP
Entry Name: Norton Hotel, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Glasgow Road, Norton House Hotel, Railway Bridge
Listing Date: 17 May 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364252
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27196
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364252
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Hotel
Circa 1841. Single-span, Tudor-Gothic railway bridge, carrying railway over main drive of Norton House. Rusticated ashlar abutments; stepped buttresses which terminate as chamfered, octagonal piers flanking driveway. Decorative cast-iron balustrade; 4-centered arched cast-iron girder span with perforated quatrefoils in spandrels (now screening modern concrete repairs). Flight of stone steps to old railway line at NE.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was opened in 1842, by which date this bridge must have been completed. Norton House Hotel, and associated buildings to the SW are listed separately.
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