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Latitude: 55.9302 / 55°55'48"N
Longitude: -3.2042 / 3°12'15"W
OS Eastings: 324859
OS Northings: 671443
OS Grid: NT248714
Mapcode National: GBR 8LP.GP
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.R6DP
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJW+38
Entry Name: Harmony House, 8 Eden Lane, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 8 Eden Lane, Harmony House, with Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 30 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364342
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27249
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 8 Eden Lane, Harmony House
ID on this website: 200364342
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
Earlier 19th century. 2-storey 5-bay house with later porch and rear projection, now subdivided. Cream sandstone, coursed and squared rubble with droved dressings to front, coursed rubble and rubble to rear and sides, rear projection pink rubble. Band course above ground floor.
E (FRONT) ELEVATION: doorway at centre (original 5-pane fanlight obscured by porch) with pedimented Doric Timber porch with clock to pediment, 2-leaf panelled door; single window at 1st floor above. Bays to left and right of centre with single windows to ground and 1st floor. Advanced bay to outer left with half-piend roof and windwos to ground and 1st floor. Bay to outer right advanced with party wall and apex stack to S, single windows to ground and 1st floor.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled 2-storey projection with apex and outer wallhead stack, single window on return.
S ELEVATION: gabled with apex stack, secondary door to left; small modern lean-to addition in re-entrant angle with rear projection.
N ELEVATION: secondary door and single windows to ground and 1st floor to right; central wallhead stack.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof with lead flashings; 3 apex stacks, 2 wallhead stacks (see above).
INTERIOR: subdivided; vestibule and hall with stone flags, stone stair with cast-iron balustrade, plain cornices.
BOUNDARY WALLS: tall pink rubble wall to all sides with flat coping; arched over pedestrian doorway to N.
Smith dates the house as circa 1822, but it can only be identified with certainty on the 1852 OS map. However, the rear projection seems to incorporate earlier parts.
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