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53 Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.931 / 55°55'51"N

Longitude: -3.1831 / 3°10'59"W

OS Eastings: 326176

OS Northings: 671516

OS Grid: NT261715

Mapcode National: GBR 8QP.QC

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.26H1

Plus Code: 9C7RWRJ8+CP

Entry Name: 53 Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 53 Fountainhall Road Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371240

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30372

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371240

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1878. 22-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan French style willa with entrance tower and service wings attached to W and E elevations; subdivided. Squared and snecked rubble; coursed stugged ashlar with polished dressings to N (entrance) elevation. Base course; cornice; quoin strips; basket-arched windows to 1st floor and entrance by return; chamfered reveals.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central advanced entrancebay, breaking eaves as tower; segmental-arched architraved doorpiece, with carved consoles and heavy segmental-arched pediment; single window with margin glazing at 1st floor; towerhead breaking eaves above in French roof intercepting main pitch (brattishing missing); cornice with corniced balustrade, corner dies surmounted by stone urns; single windows with segmental-arched heads to N and W faces; shouldered stack to E return. Advanced corniced tripartie window in ground floor bay to outer right; pipartite window at 1st floor. Small single windwo and advanced bipartite window at ground floor to outer left; single window at 1st floor. Single window to service wing attached to outer right.

SERVICE WING: single storey and attic; secondary entracne and single window at ground floor to N with single window breaking eaves in pedimented dormerhead above; single window at 1st floor to W.

W ELEVATION: piend-roofed service wing; window at 1st floor.

Plate glass sash and case windows; some uPVC replacements. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; moulded eaves guttering; 3 shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks to main house; 19th century dormer to W.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped wall to street, rising to E and W; pair of ashlar gatepiers with cornices and pyramidal caps.

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