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85, 85A Colinton Road, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9301 / 55°55'48"N

Longitude: -3.2219 / 3°13'18"W

OS Eastings: 323753

OS Northings: 671455

OS Grid: NT237714

Mapcode National: GBR 8GP.WQ

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.G6ZR

Plus Code: 9C7RWQJH+26

Entry Name: 85, 85A Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 83, 85 and 85A Colinton Road

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364291

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27219

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364291

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Semi-detached house

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Description

Edward Calvert, 1897. Pair of 2-storey and attic 2-bay semi-detached houses with side entrance porches and rear projections. Cream sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings, ashlar front and squared and snecked rubble to rear and sides. Red ashlar base course; cill band course at ground floor; moulded cill course at 1st floor; stilted windows, segmental-arched at ground floor; decorative aprons to 1st floor and attic windows; fluted frieze and moulded capitals to mullions; ashlar eaves course; bipartite timber dormers with moulded surrounds.

NW (FRONT) ELEVATION: elevation mirrored about centre; single storey lean-to glazed entrance porch alongside outer bays with classical ashlar front, rubble-built to rear (No 85 glazed portion removed and replaced with rubble forestair), doorway flanked by panelled pilasters, key-pattern frieze, cornice and blocking course, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight. Centre bays with tripartite window to ground and 1st floor, dormer above. Outer bays with shallow full-height canted windows (1-2-1) corbelled to square in Dutch gable with ball finial, bull's-eye window with keystone and shaped apron to gablehead. SE (REAR) ELEVATION: central single storey projection with mansard roof; tall wallhead stack linked to roof above flanked by quadripartite dormers.

NE ELEVATION: single storey part-glazed part rubble-built porch at ground floor; single central window at 1st floor; tall central shouldered and corniced wallhead stack; dormer to right.

SW ELEVATION: as SE elevation with glazed portion of porch removed (see above).

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Green slates, piend and platform roof with lead flashings; red cresed ridge tiles to front gables; 3 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping.

Statement of Interest

Variant of design for the adjoining semi-detached houses Nos 79-81a and 87, 89 Colinton Road, also by Calvert.

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