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51 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9373 / 55°56'14"N

Longitude: -3.1878 / 3°11'16"W

OS Eastings: 325898

OS Northings: 672221

OS Grid: NT258722

Mapcode National: GBR 8PM.S4

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.0196

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP6+WV

Entry Name: 51 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 49 and 51 Lauder Road

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371330

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30410

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371330

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

John Paterson, circa 1868. 2-storey, 4-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan double villa. Squared and snecked rubble; snecked and stugged ashlar with polished dressings at W (entrance) elevation. Base and eaves courses; quoin strips with nook-shafts and miniature carved capitals; bracketed cornice; nook-shafted margins and mullions with variety of foliate capitals; windows mainly round-arched at ground floor and segmental at 1st floor.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrances at 2nd and 3rd bays; round-arched doorpieces flanked by colonettes with carved foliate capitals; deep-set 2-leaf panelled doors; round-arched plate glass fanlights. Single windows above entrances; advanced full-height canted windows with dividing cornices to outer left and outer right.

N ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floors; single storey piend-roofed former service wing (now garage).

Plate glass sash and casw windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; moulded eaves guttering; 4 shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks to N and S (2 to S rendered); dormer to S.

INTERIORS: ornate plaster mouldings in vestibules.

Very low saddleback wall to street, rising to approximately 3m in Hatton Place.

Statement of Interest

This double villa is similar in design to Nos 41 and 43, and 45 and 47 Lauder Road, also by John Paterson.

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