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Latitude: 55.9062 / 55°54'22"N
Longitude: -3.2561 / 3°15'21"W
OS Eastings: 321570
OS Northings: 668839
OS Grid: NT215688
Mapcode National: GBR 87Z.Y8
Mapcode Global: WH6SR.YTN2
Plus Code: 9C7RWP4V+FH
Entry Name: 5 Barnshot Road, Colinton, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 and 7 Barnshot Road, with Boundary Wall and Gates. (Campbell Cottage and Loudon Cottage)
Listing Date: 17 January 1990
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371034
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30225
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371034
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Colinton/Fairmilehead
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1884. Single-storey and attic, 4-bay, cross-plan semi-detached pair of Arts and Crafts cottages. Central advanced 2-bay M gable to front (SW) with tripartite transomed and mullioned windows to ground and bipartite windows above; applied half timbering to gables; single-storey section to outer bays. Squared snecked cream sandstone with ashlar dressings; rendered to first floor of front gables with dividing string course. Pointed arch timber panelled doors in stop-chamfered pointed arch surrounds to outer bays of SW elevation; square leaded lights above (plate glass replacement to No 7). Tripartite mullioned windows to outer flank; later piended-roof bipartite dormer above at No 7. Paired windows in half-timbered section of gables to side elevations (NW & SE); flush chimney breast breaking timbering to centre, and rising through eaves. Advanced 2-bay piend-roofed section to centre of NE (rear) elevation; tripartite windows set in mock-timbering to attic; advanced section with lean-to roof to ground; timber boarded back doors with small windows to outer flank. Irregular fenestration to rest of elevation.
Predominantly timber casements; 6-pane glazing above plate glass to ground floor. Non-traditional glazing to attic storey. Red tiled roof with deep eaves and plain bargeboards to gables. Corniced stacks with tall clay cans.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE: ashlar coped snecked sandstone boundary wall; decorative wrought-iron gate to No 5.
Listed as part of the development by the Lady Flora Hastings Trust at 1-15 Barnshot Road, intended for the widows of British and Indian Officers, at the beneficence of the Marchioness of Bute. 3 pairs of semi-detached houses, each with 2 public rooms and 3 bedrooms, were built for #7000. Lady Flora (1806-39) was a Lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, and died of cancer when she was fairly young.
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