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26 And 26A Mansionhouse Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9349 / 55°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.1881 / 3°11'17"W

OS Eastings: 325872

OS Northings: 671956

OS Grid: NT258719

Mapcode National: GBR 8PM.QZ

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.0341

Plus Code: 9C7RWRM6+XP

Entry Name: 26 And 26A Mansionhouse Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 26 and 26A Mansionhouse Road

Listing Date: 15 January 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371355

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30430

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371355

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1860, style of James Campbell Walker. 2-storey, 3-bay villa (subdivided into 2 in 1956). Pinkish hammer-dressed sandstone, squared and snecked; cream coloured dressings; chamfered reveals. Base, dividing and eaves courses.

W ELEVATION: hoodmoulded single window (formerly entrance) at ground floor centre; single windows above and flanking to left; canted bay swept with carvings to square flanking to right; gablehead slit window above; sone finial. Distictive use of horizontal and vertical banding on door and window surrounds, and on quoins.

N ELEVATION: window at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: blank; later entrance to ground floor and forestairs to 1st floor, with further additions behind.

4-pain and 2-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate double-pitched roof; ashlar coped gables; brtakceted skewputts; corniced end stacks; octagonal cans with additional caps; moulded eaves gutter; modern rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low ashlar coped boundary wall to street, rising at gateway to S. 2 detached garages (1829 and 1972).

Statement of Interest

This house shares its distinctive "banding" with its neighbour, 24 Mansionhouse Road, and also 36 Lauder Road, and 11 and 13 Tantallon Place.

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