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37 And 37A Mansionhouse Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9343 / 55°56'3"N

Longitude: -3.1884 / 3°11'18"W

OS Eastings: 325851

OS Northings: 671891

OS Grid: NT258718

Mapcode National: GBR 8PN.N6

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Z3VH

Plus Code: 9C7RWRM6+PJ

Entry Name: 37 And 37A Mansionhouse Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 37 and 37A Mansionhouse Road, Boundary Walls and Railings

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371351

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30426

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371351

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1860, in the style of David Bryce. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan villa, subdivided. Sandstone rubble; squared and coursed stugged ashlar E (entrance) elevation. Base course; dressed quoins; chamfered reveals; projecting eaves.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled timber porch with finial, in re-entrant angle, supported by 3 Jacobean piers; panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Advanced gabled bay flanking to right, with canted window swept to gablehead; square blank tablet set in gable; single window flanking to left at ground floor, with dormer above.

N ELEVATION: blank.

S ELEVATION: small round-arched window at 1st floor; sensitive single storey extension (1985).

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate gabled roof (M-gabled to S with gablehead stacks, and a wallhead stack to N); moulded octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: richly decorated plaster cornice in dining room.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND IRONWORK: low ashlar coped boundary wall to street surmounted by wrought iron railings with cast 2-leaf spearheads; high ashlar coped boundary walls surrounding house.

Statement of Interest

The house was divided into 2 in 1987, and has various modern additions to S and W (including 1988 conservatory).

Services were held here before the completion of Chalmers Memorial Free Church (now St Catherins's Argyle) in 1866 (see Grange Association (1982

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