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Latitude: 55.9798 / 55°58'47"N
Longitude: -3.2177 / 3°13'3"W
OS Eastings: 324111
OS Northings: 676982
OS Grid: NT241769
Mapcode National: GBR 8H3.QW
Mapcode Global: WH6SD.JYZP
Plus Code: 9C7RXQHJ+WW
Entry Name: 23 Wardie Square, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 21-23 (Consecutive Nos) Wardie Square
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370450
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29885
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370450
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Circa 1853. Single storey and attics. Terrace of 2 2-bay cottages and 1 3-bay cottage, each successively stepped up slope. Brick painted white with ashlar dressings. Stone sills to ground floor windows; piended dormers to attics.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: reversed plans at Nos 21 and 22, with entrances to left and right respectively; piended dormers above ground floor windows. Central entrance to No 23 with irregularly-spaced flanking windows; pair of irregularly-spaced piended dormers above. 4-panel timber doors to Nos 21 (replacement) and 23; boarded timber door to No 24. Polished ashlar coped gable ends to right of each cottage (marking change in level of roofline). Pavement of small irregular cobbles with stone kerb along front.
Mainly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; 2-pane sash and cases to No 22. Grey slate roofs. Coped gablehead stacks to projecting dividing walls between cottages (that between Nos 22 and 23 rendered and narrower); round cans.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed extensions to each cottage.
S ELEVATION: blank coped gable end.
N ELEVATION: adjoins 119 Lower Granton Road.
INTERIORS: not inspected (1997).
B group with Nos 1-6, 8-20 and 24-30 Wardie Square and Nos 110-112, 113-118 and 119-144 Lower Granton Road. Contemporary with the construction of Granton Harbour (1836-63) whose workers it was presumably intended to accommodate. Pavement in front of cottages is of small, very closely-spaced cobbles and probably original.
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