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43 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Latitude: 55.9453 / 55°56'42"N

Longitude: -3.2429 / 3°14'34"W

OS Eastings: 322468

OS Northings: 673167

OS Grid: NT224731

Mapcode National: GBR 8BJ.L8

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.5T0N

Plus Code: 9C7RWQW4+4R

Entry Name: 43 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 41 and 43 Corstorphine Road, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 18 September 2002

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366800

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28588

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200366800

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Corstorphine/Murrayfield

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1840. 2-storey (3-storey at rear), 6-bay, symmetrical rectangular-plan houses. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged quoins and long and short surrounds. Eaves course and cornice; architraved doorpieces; block cills to 1st floor windows.

N ELEVATION: doorpieces to outer bays at ground; window to each intervening bay; single windows to all bays, upper floor; centred windows at mezzanine level to W elevation; bracketed 2-storey rectangular-plan projecting bay at rear of No 43.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to front elevation. Grey slate piended roof; coped shouldered wallhead stacks with cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped squared and snecked sandstone wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Largely intact plain Classical pair of villas. One of the earlier developments of Corstorphine Road.

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