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Latitude: 55.9224 / 55°55'20"N
Longitude: -3.3777 / 3°22'39"W
OS Eastings: 314004
OS Northings: 670779
OS Grid: NT140707
Mapcode National: GBR 21.ZWP9
Mapcode Global: WH6SQ.2DVP
Plus Code: 9C7RWJCC+XW
Entry Name: 2 Baird Road, Ratho, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Ratho Village, 2 Baird Road and Wall
Listing Date: 8 March 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365003
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27705
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365003
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 19th century. Single storey and attic Tudor-style; 3-bay, rectangular plan former schoolhouse. Stugged, squared honey-coloured and red sandstone with some pinning; polished red sandstone margins; chamfered reveals.
MAIN ELEVATION: door at centre (modern) with original 3-light letterbox fanlight; pentice bracketted slab canopy. Dormerheaded window to left; lancet in pediment head. Tall broad gabled bay to outer right; tripartite projecting bay window at ground; chamfered stone mullions; narrow window in gablehead; jettied slender apex stack.
12-pane sash and case window; 4-pane to tripartite lights. Ashlar coping to skews and skewblocks. Coped, apex stacks with octagonal cans.
WALL: base course; high rubble wall; semi-circular coping.
The former schoolhouse bears strong similarities with estate cottages such as Biel, Stenton, Tyninghame in East Lothian.
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