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24 Mansionhouse Road, The Grange, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9351 / 55°56'6"N

Longitude: -3.1883 / 3°11'17"W

OS Eastings: 325863

OS Northings: 671976

OS Grid: NT258719

Mapcode National: GBR 8PM.PX

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.021X

Plus Code: 9C7RWRP6+2M

Entry Name: 24 Mansionhouse Road, The Grange, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 24 Mansionhouse Road

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371354

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30429

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371354

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1861, style of James Campbell Walker. 2-storey, 3-bay villa. Pinkish grey hammer-dressed sandstone, squared and snecked; contrasting dressings; chamfered reveals. Base and eaves courses, string course to 1st floor cills.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf panelled door; leaded rectangular fanlight; hoodmould. Single windows above door and flanking to left at ground and 1st floor; canted bay swept to square at 1st floor flanking to right (gabled above); blank rectangular tablet in gablehead; stone finial. Distinctive use of vertical banding on door and window surrounds, and on quoins.

N ELEVATION: small window at ground floor; 2 single windows at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: blank; small glass lean-to with stone-faced addition behind.

4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate double-pitched roof; ashlar coped gables; bracketed skewputts; corniced end stacks; octagonal cans; moulded eaves gutter; original rainwater goods, including fleur-de-lys gutter fixtures.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

Low boundary wall to street, rising at gateway to S.

Statement of Interest

This house shares its distinctive "banding" with its neighbour, 26 Mansionhouse Road, and also 36 Lauder Road, and 11 and 13 Tantallon Place.

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