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Latitude: 55.9661 / 55°57'57"N
Longitude: -3.3071 / 3°18'25"W
OS Eastings: 318504
OS Northings: 675558
OS Grid: NT185755
Mapcode National: GBR 24.X0ZB
Mapcode Global: WH6SK.59FN
Plus Code: 9C7RXM8V+C5
Entry Name: 2 Barnton Avenue West, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Barnton Avenue West, Barnton House (Formerly) West Lodge Gatepiers
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370808
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30052
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370808
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Gatehouse
David Hamilton, circa 1810. Tudor gatepiers to former Barnton House (demolished and replaced with housing, W & J R Watson, 1982). Pair of pointed-arched, 4-columned piers flank entry; curved corner wall to left; single octagonal pier to Barnton Avenue West. Polished yellow sandstone; droved sandstone wall.
W (WHITEHOUSE ROAD) ELEVATION: 2 piers comprising double engaged octagonal columns to left and right of architraved arch; architraved panelling set within each facet; projecting base courses; carved foliate decoration to friezes; upper crenellation between columns. Cast-iron gates missing.
WALL: round-arched arrow slits set at intervals along curved wall to street. Projecting base course; roll-moulded cornice.
N (BARNTON AVENUE WEST ) ELEVATION: single octagonal pier to left of wall; round-arched arrow slits to each facet; chamfered plinth; architraved capital with sculpted foliate panels in each facet; surmounting geometric crenellation.
Despite the demolition of Barnton House and the subsequent redevelopment, the gate piers remain significant - both in terms of scale, detail and quality of craftsmanship, remaining tangible evidence of the previous existence of Barnton House. The 1914 Ordnance Survey map shows a lodge within the gates (since demolished).
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