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Latitude: 55.9306 / 55°55'50"N
Longitude: -3.2199 / 3°13'11"W
OS Eastings: 323879
OS Northings: 671506
OS Grid: NT238715
Mapcode National: GBR 8HP.8J
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.H6YD
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJJ+62
Entry Name: Red House, 1 Gillsland Road South, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 Gillsland Road South, Red House
Listing Date: 30 January 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364399
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27290
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 1 Gillsland Road South, Red House
ID on this website: 200364399
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
Professor Frank Worthington Simon, 1897. Substantial 2-storey 5-bay Jacobethan villa with service wing to SE. Red sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Chamfered reveals, rounded reveals to bipartite and tripartite windows; ashlar mullions; lugged and finialled gables; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; tall corniced wallhead stacks linked to roof.
SW (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled entrance bay at centre with tall ashlar base course, round-arched corniced doorway with keystone and 2 proud voussoirs, panelled door and semi-circular fanlight with square leaded panes: tripartite window at 1st floor above. Bay to left of centre with tripartite and single window at ground floor; tripartite window and corbelled wallhead stack at 1st floor. Bay to right of centre with single window at ground floor. Outer bays with canted transomed windows (1-2-1) at ground floor; bipartite windows in slightly advanced panel breaking eaves in gable above.
NW (COLINTON ROAD) ELEVATION: central full-height aqdvanced shouldered wallhead stack; 2 small windows to left.
SE ELEVATION: broad lower 2-storey service wing to right with half-piend and catslide roof, modern rectangular dormer, single windows on return. 2 shouldered wallhead stacks.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: recessed bays to centre with tall bipartite transomed stair window with pattern of leaded panes and single windows; lower advanced outer bays, bipartite and tripartite windows to left, wallhead stack to right. Secondary door flanked by single windows to rear of service wing.
12-pane timber sash and case windows to single windows, square leaded panes to bipartite and tripartite windows. Red tiled piend and platformed bellcast roof; 5 wallhead stacks (see above). Ornamental casti-iron gutter brackets.
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
Low rubble wall with saddleback coping, later gates and railings.
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