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2 Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9334 / 55°56'0"N

Longitude: -3.1938 / 3°11'37"W

OS Eastings: 325512

OS Northings: 671795

OS Grid: NT255717

Mapcode National: GBR 8NN.KJ

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X496

Plus Code: 9C7RWRM4+9F

Entry Name: 2 Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 2 & 4 Kilgraston RD Incl Stable Block and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371562

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30527

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371562

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1867. 2-storey with basement, irregular-plan villa with Jacobean details. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Dividing band course;eaves cornice; raised quoins; 1st floor windows breaking eaves in pediments; chamfered reveals.

S ENTRANCE elevation: 4-bay. Steps up to round-arched roll-moulded doorway in 2nd bay; Gibbsian doorpiece with pierced stone strapwork over cornice; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; bipartite window at 1st floor above. Corniced 2-storey 4-light canted window in advanced gabled bay to outer left; pierced stone strapwork above cornice; kneelers to gable. Bipartite windows in 3rd and 4th bays; strapwork above cornice to 1st floor window in 4th bay.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay. Central recessed bay with mullioned and transomed stair window; pediment breaking eaves above. Advanced bays to outer left and right; single windows offset to left at ground and 1st floors.

W ELEVATION: 2-bay. Bipartite windows in advanced gabled bay to outer left; cornice to 1st floor window; kneelers to gable. Bipartite windows in bay to outer right; 1st floor window corniced. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; machicolated corbels to gablehead chimneybreasts and shouldered and corniced stacks to N and E; moulded octagonal cans to E stack; coped gables; stone finials; block skewputts; some original rainwater goods including hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

STABLE BLOCK: detached storey piend-roofed stable block to S of house. BOUNDARY WALLS: high coped boundary walls to Kilgraston Road and Hope Terrace.

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