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West End Cottage, 2 Wilkieston Road, Ratho

A Category C Listed Building in Pentland Hills, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9207 / 55°55'14"N

Longitude: -3.3857 / 3°23'8"W

OS Eastings: 313498

OS Northings: 670597

OS Grid: NT134705

Mapcode National: GBR 21.ZTL1

Mapcode Global: WH6SP.YGX0

Plus Code: 9C7RWJC7+7P

Entry Name: West End Cottage, 2 Wilkieston Road, Ratho

Listing Name: Ratho Village, 2 Wilkieston Road, West End Cottage and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 8 March 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 365115

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27785

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200365115

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 5-bay, rectangular- plan cottage (originally 3-bay, extended sympathetically soon after). Stugged, coursed honey-coloured sandstone with droved margins and quoins.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: 5-bay, 3-bay symmetrical original cottage and 2-bay addition to outer left. Door at centre of cottage, flanking windows; 2 symmetrically disposed canted dormers. Penultimate bay to left blinded; window to outer left.

E ELEVATION: gable; window to outer right; smaller window in gablehead to outer left. Stables attached to right; blocked feeding doors at ground, blocked ventilation slits at upper level; corrugated sheet metal roof.

Plate-glass sash and case window (lower pane larger than upper); grey slate roof; half-piend roof for dormers; ashlar coping to skews; mutual skew dividing main cottage from 2-bay left end; coped apex stacks; paired circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble wall with semi-circular coping sloping from W to E; slender stugged piers with pyramidal heads.

Statement of Interest

The property is shown on the 1st edition OS map.

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