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Latitude: 55.9508 / 55°57'3"N
Longitude: -3.1005 / 3°6'1"W
OS Eastings: 331372
OS Northings: 673636
OS Grid: NT313736
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y5DL
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.BPSC
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2X+8Q
Entry Name: Gatepiers and boundary walls at 76 Promenade, Joppa, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 76 Promenade, 20 and 21 Bedford Terrace Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 March 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364373
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27269
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364373
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
James C Walker, 1868 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay irregular-plan, Rogue Baronial villa, now subdivided. Stugged ashlar with polished dressings. Base course, moulded string course between ground and 1st floor, eaves course.
NE (PRINCIPAL/PROMENADE) ELEVATION: 3-stage entrance tower to centre; round-arched doorpiece with key-stone; panelled 2-leaf outer doors; stained glass upper panel to vestibule door; plate glass semicircular fanlight above. Corbelled balustraded balcony to pedimented window at 2nd stage, shouldered window at 3rd stage. Chamfered angles to 3rd stage. Polygonal piended roof with cast-iron brattishing. Window to each floor of bay to right; cast-iron window guard and stylised pedimented and finialed dormerhead to 1st floor breaking eaves. Canted 2-storey window in gabled bay to outer left; coped skews and kneelers.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994. Rounded-headed stained or painted glass stairwindow. Single storey addition to SE corner.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof (purple slate to rear), with fish-scale slates to piended tower to centre; gablehead stacks; tall moulded octagonal cans. Finial to skewputt to outer right.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: squared and snecked sandstone wall with moulded coping to street with stop-chamfered arrises to corniced pedestrian gatepiers, tall wrought-iron gate.
The house is called Eastbourne House, 1994. The plans of the villa were exhibited in the RSA exhibition in 1868. The property was built for P S Steele Esq. A garage was built in 1920 according to Dean of Guild records.
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