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Latitude: 55.9627 / 55°57'45"N
Longitude: -3.1972 / 3°11'50"W
OS Eastings: 325356
OS Northings: 675059
OS Grid: NT253750
Mapcode National: GBR 8MB.V0
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VDP7
Plus Code: 9C7RXR73+34
Entry Name: Heriot Hill House, 1 Broughton Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 Broughton Road, Heriot Hill House with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 25 November 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366162
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28358
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 1 Broughton Road, Heriot Hill House
ID on this website: 200366162
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Inverleith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
1788 with substantial later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay piended roofed classical villa with singlestorey piend-roofed pavilion addition to right, masking original of 1788, and that to left altered to flat-roofed angled 2-bay projection. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble, painted ashlar margins. Base course, cill band at 1st floor, cornice and blocking course.
SE (BROUGHTON ROAD) ELEVATION: modern door with fanlight in corniced and architraved doorpiece to centre, stone-mullioned tripartites to left and right at ground, regular fenestration above. Window to projection to right, 3 windows to projection to left.
NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: piend-roofed single storey pavilion to left, later 2-storey addition to right.
SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: altered pavilion at ground to left, evidence of former pitch of pavilion above.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Timber sash and case windows with 4-pane and plateglass glazing. Grey slate piended roofs, wallhead stacks to SW and NE.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: ashlar and rubble coped boundary walls with square plan sandstone ashlar gatepiers.
Secluded behind a gateway on the corner of Broughton Road. Very plain, built in 1788 but soon afterwards given a new front range with tripartite windows and singlestorey wings. Rodney Street leads to what exists of the Heriot Trust's Bellevue and East Claremont Street, begun at the North end in 1823.
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