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Latitude: 55.9902 / 55°59'24"N
Longitude: -3.3969 / 3°23'48"W
OS Eastings: 312955
OS Northings: 678348
OS Grid: NT129783
Mapcode National: GBR 20.VQTD
Mapcode Global: WH6S9.SPMQ
Plus Code: 9C7RXJR3+36
Entry Name: Rosebery Memorial Hall, 17 West Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry
Listing Name: 17 West Terrace, Rosebery Memorial Hall
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386336
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40410
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: South Queensferry, High Street, 17 West Terrace, Rosebery Memorial Hall
ID on this website: 200386336
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Hall
Sydney Mitchell and Wilson; dated 1890 above door; Serlian window dated 1893. 2-storey; ashlar ground floor; harl 1st floor; ashlar dressings.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: shaped gable front; tripartite at ground floor; pedimented Serlian window above. Quadrant link to Tolbooth to right; tripartite at 1st floor; crowning balustrade. Moulded doorpiece to right; pediment feature; forestair with railing.
E ELAVTION: blind wall.
S ELEVATION: adjoining buildings.
W ELEVATION: window into small courtyard; courtyard wall decorated with modern mural.
Variety of small pane and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Rosemary tiled roof; coped ashlar stack at east.
INTERIOR: much altered.
B-Group with Tolbooth. The Earl of Rosbery financed the erection of this hall in memory of his wife Hannah. The inscription above the door reads: 'In Memory of Countess Rosebery'. The Rosebery family were generous patrons of Queensferry. A plaque on the front of the forestair, dated 1817, thanks 'Archibald John Earl of Rosebery Provost of this Burgh ... for a bleaching green and ... supply of water'.
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