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Latitude: 55.9318 / 55°55'54"N
Longitude: -3.1951 / 3°11'42"W
OS Eastings: 325430
OS Northings: 671614
OS Grid: NT254716
Mapcode National: GBR 8NP.93
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.W5PG
Plus Code: 9C7RWRJ3+PX
Entry Name: 7 Whitehouse Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 7 Whitehouse Terrace Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371754
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30676
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371754
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1862. 2-storey, near rectangular-plan villa with Italianate entrance tower and service wing. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; dividing band course; overhanging bracketted eaves; raised and lugged window surrounds; chamfered reveals to canted window.
S ENTRANCE elevation: 3-bay, including recessed entrance tower to outer right. Square section 4-stage tower; architraved doorway; pilastered doorpiece with carved consoles and cornice; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; round-arched window at 2nd stage; bipartite round-arched window at 3rd stage; tripartite round-arched window at 4th stage; overhanging eaves to pyramidal roof. Bipartite window at ground in 2nd bay; single window at 1st floor.
E ELEVATION: 2-bay. Entrance tower in 1st bay left, detailed as above, except single window at ground floor. Single window in 2nd bay.
W ELEVATION: 3-bay. Secondary entrance at ground in advanced bay to outer right; single window at 1st floor. Single windows in remaining bays. N REAR elevation: single windows in bay to outer left. Round-arched stairwindow behind service wing. Single storey service wing to outer right; small piend-roofed addition to E; overhanging eaves to addition and part of service wing; small pane glazing; window under eaves to E; window to N; 2 windows at ground to W; window breaking eaves in piend-roofed dormerhead above. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks; corniced ridge stack; moulded square cans; moulded eaves guttering. INTERIOR: not seen 1991.
GATEPIERS and BOUNDARY WALLS: panelled and corniced ashlar gatepiers; pedestrian gateway through slapping to right of carriage gateway; high coped boundary and mutual walls.
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