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Latitude: 55.9337 / 55°56'1"N
Longitude: -3.2083 / 3°12'29"W
OS Eastings: 324608
OS Northings: 671836
OS Grid: NT246718
Mapcode National: GBR 8KN.MF
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.P4F0
Plus Code: 9C7RWQMR+FM
Entry Name: 7 Greenhill Park, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 7 and 9 Greenhill Park with Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364527
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27380
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364527
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
John Henderson, 1853. 2-storey double villa, each 4-bay, with recessed side wings, with classical details and later additions. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble, polished ashlar dressings to front. Architraved windows, bracketted cills; cill band course at 1st floor, overhanging eaves.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: elevation mirrored about centre; gabled slightly advanced centre bays each with single window at ground floor in round-arched architraved panel: corniced window at 1st floor above. Bays to left and right of centre with single windows to ground and 1st floor. Recessed 2-storey (heightened later) entrance porch to outer bays with round-arched doorway, panelled door and semi-circular fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Recessed side wings (originally single storey); to right with tripartite timber oriel with carved timber brackets and gable to S, oriel and lean-to conservatory to E; to left modern rubble-built forestair to secondary door on return of porch, tripartite timber oriel to side wing.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bays to left and right of centre; single windows.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate piend and platform roof with metal flashings; wallhead stacks to W and NW, central transverse stack, corniced square cans. Moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads.
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
BOUNDARY WALL: tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to front, rear and sides with 2 pedestrian gateways with semi-circular pediments.
See Nos 2 and 4 for A similar villa design by Henderson. The Dean of Guild drawings for the 1890 alterations to No 9 show the original
houses as having single storey entrance porches and side wings. Similar alterations to No 7 are roughly contemporary (except for forestair).
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