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Latitude: 55.9073 / 55°54'26"N
Longitude: -3.2553 / 3°15'19"W
OS Eastings: 321620
OS Northings: 668954
OS Grid: NT216689
Mapcode National: GBR 88Y.3W
Mapcode Global: WH6SR.ZS08
Plus Code: 9C7RWP4V+WV
Entry Name: Dell Court, 1 Woodhall Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 Woodhall Road, Dell Court, with Boundary and Retaining Walls, Steps, Gatepiers and Gate
Listing Date: 19 November 2003
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370668
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29946
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370668
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Colinton/Fairmilehead
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1825. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular villa with engaged Ionic columns supporting entablature over central doorway, flanked by 2-storey canted bays; shallow piended roof with deep blocked eaves. Droved sandstone ashlar with squared, snecked sandstone rubble to sides and rear. Base course, band course, 1st floor cill course, moulded eaves course. Non-traditional uPVC front door with original fanlight; flanking Doric pilasters behind engaged Ionic entablature with blocking course; single window above. Flanking 3-window canted bays. Unsympathetic late 20th century additions to sides. Rear with later additions at ground to centre; advanced, large 2-storey canted bay to left, and French doors at ground to right.
Timber sash and case windows with 16-pane lying-pane glazing to front; 9-pane glazing in upper sashes and plate glass in lower sashes to rear. Rendered stacks with clay cans. Graded grey slate.
INTERIOR: cantilevered staircase with wrought-iron blausters and polished timber hand rail; some surviving cornicing; staircase window with decorative glazing.
BOUNDARY WALL, STEPS, AND GATE: coped random rubble boundary and retaining wall to N and W. Octagonal gatepiers supporting stone bird-baths to W; decorative wrought-iron gate; stone steps from pavement level to garden.
Formerly called Colinton Bank House. Despite the dominant modern additions, this is a very attractive late Georgian villa that still has its original lying-pane glazing. It is an important landmark as it stands on the corner of Dreghorn Loan, overlooking the junction of Woodhall Road, Colinton Road, and Bridge Road. Very little is known about the history of the house, but it was probably built for the owner of one of the mills that flourished in Colinton Dell during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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