Latitude: 55.9309 / 55°55'51"N
Longitude: -3.2143 / 3°12'51"W
OS Eastings: 324229
OS Northings: 671535
OS Grid: NT242715
Mapcode National: GBR 8JP.DF
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.L6L4
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJP+97
Entry Name: Viewfield House, 12 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 12 Tipperlinn Road, Viewfield House, with Boundary Walls Gatepiers and Gates
Listing Date: 30 March 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365029
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27723
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365029
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
Circa 1830. 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical villa with single storey pavilions (to right heightened and rendered circa 1890) and outhouses to NE. Cream tooled ashlar front with polished ashlar door surround and bays, pink rubble to rear and side, rendered 2-storey extension. Base course; band course above ground floor; cill band course at 1st floor; dentilled eaves cornice with blocking course; chamfered reveals to bays. W (FRONT) ELEVATION: corniced doorway to centre with cavetto moulded surround, paired pedestalled pilasters flanking, panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Outer bays with canted window at ground floor; single window at 1st floor. Single storey flat-roofed side wings with single window, to right later flat-roofed addition with tall transomed window at 1st floor.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: large projecting 2-storey addition to left; rectangular stair well (1890?) at centre with tall round-arched stair window with leaded panes (probably moved forward from origianl position); single windows to remainings bays. Single storey outhouse against high wall to right.
S ELEVATION_: 2-storey addition with rectangular timber oriel, bipartite transomed window with narrow lights on return and panelled pilasters.
N ELEVATION: central wallhead stack.
Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing, later addition with small-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. Piend slate roof with lead flashings; 2 wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: tall wall of pink rubble with flat coping to front, rear and sides, tall coped ashlar gatepiers with fluted frieze; cast-iron pedestrian and carriage gates.
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