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Latitude: 55.9372 / 55°56'13"N
Longitude: -3.1715 / 3°10'17"W
OS Eastings: 326916
OS Northings: 672190
OS Grid: NT269721
Mapcode National: GBR 8TM.25
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.8109
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPH+VC
Entry Name: Blacket Avenue Lodge, 74 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 74 Dalkeith Road, Blacket Avenue Lodge and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366873
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28625
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 74 Dalkeith Road, Blacket Avenue Lodge
ID on this website: 200366873
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Gatehouse Architectural structure
Circa 1825. Single storey, 3 bay, symmetrical, classical former gatelodge; single storey wing adjoining to N. Cream sandstone coursed rubble with droved dressings. Base course; advanced cills; stone canopies over windows and doorway; cornice; overhanging eaves.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway to advanced central bay; 2 leaf panelled door; plate glass fanlight; pediment breaking eaves above; bipartite windows in bays to outer left and right. Bipartite window to left of single storey wing to N; blocked doorway to outer right.
S (BLACKET AVENUE) ELEVATION: single bay; full height, 3 light, canted window.
Square pattern leaded, mullioned and transomed windows. Grey slate piended roofs; tall, rendered octagonal stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
GATEPIERS: James Gillespie Graham, 1825. Pair of corniced Tudor gatepiers with blind traceried panels. Cream sandstone ashlar.
It was a condition of George Steuart's original feu contract of 1807 that all porters? lodges should be single storey. Porters' lodges were stipulated by the owners of the land in 1825, Benjamin and George Bell, as necessary for the maintenance of the privacy, convenience and security of their prospective buyers. Similar gatepiers and lodges can therefore be found at Nos 62 and 122 Dalkeith Road; originally there were also gates to the Blacket estate which were locked every night.
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