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123 Grange Loan, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9305 / 55°55'49"N

Longitude: -3.1915 / 3°11'29"W

OS Eastings: 325654

OS Northings: 671469

OS Grid: NT256714

Mapcode National: GBR 8PP.1K

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Y6FF

Plus Code: 9C7RWRJ5+6C

Entry Name: 123 Grange Loan, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 123 Grange Loan Formerly Dunard Incl Gatepiers Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371509

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30506

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371509

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Robert Reid Raeburn, 1875. 2-storey with basement to rear, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa; subdivided. Cleaned coursed cream sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; dividing band course; eaves cornice; architraved windows; stone balustrades to ground floor openings to N forming balconies to 1st floor windows; bracketted cills to S.

N entrance elevation: 3-bay. steps up to open porch; Ionic capitalled columns supporting entablature; architraved doorway panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Single storey canted window in bay to outer right; bipartite window at 1st floor. Advanced tripartite window at ground in bay to outer left; bipartite window at 1st floor.

S OSWALD ROAD elevation: 4-bay. Full-height bowed bay to outer left with 3 windows to each floor. Round-headed 3-light stairwindow in 2nd bay to centre; window at principal (ground) floor. Single windows in remaining bays to right. E elevation: 3-bay. Brick housing block (1985) adjoining toouter left. Single windows in remaining 2 bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof, swept at eaves; bipartite dormer to N; tripartitedormer to S; box dormers to E and W; corniced ridge stacks. Interior not seen 1991.

Gatepiers boundary walls and railings: 2 panelled and corniced ashlar gatepiers to Grange Loan (formerly a further 2 gatepiers formed a central gateway with pedestrian gateways flanking); 6 semi-circular coped and corniced piers supporting highly decorative cast-iron railings; 2-leaf decorative cast-iron gates; quadrant stone balustrade flanking steps up to entrance; terminal dies with decorative urns. High coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Formerly Grange Home School. The housing blocks adjoining and surrounding No 123 were built in 1985.

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