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Latitude: 55.9146 / 55°54'52"N
Longitude: -3.161 / 3°9'39"W
OS Eastings: 327530
OS Northings: 669667
OS Grid: NT275696
Mapcode National: GBR 8WW.68
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.FL0M
Plus Code: 9C7RWR7Q+RJ
Entry Name: Covington, 77 Kirkbrae, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 77 Kirkbrae, Covington with Gatepiers, Garden Walls and Greenhouse
Listing Date: 15 April 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389654
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43244
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389654
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Liberton/Gilmerton
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1865. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan villa. Squared and coursed stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings to front elevation, squared rubble with stugged ashlar margins to sides and rear. Timber sash and case windows with 6-pane glazing to front, 12-pane glazing pattern to sides and rear. Ashlar coped skews and skewputts, grey slates and corniced ashlar stacks.
N (FRONT) ELEVATION: steps to central door, recessed 4-panelled door with 2-pane letterbox fanlight over, consoled doorpiece above, window at 1st floor. Gabled bays flanking, each with canted, flat-roofed bay projecting through 2 floors, base course, cill course at 1st floor.
E ELEVATION: to garden. Gable end to right with window and later door opening at ground floor, window to 1st floor. Slightly lower service wing with 2 windows to each floor.
S ELEVATION: service court at rear with lean-to slated outhouse and porch over backdoor. Stone built former carriage house adjoining garden walls to S.
INTERIOR: part seen; 2 leaf, half-glazed inner hall door, cantilevered stone stair beyond with cast-iron balusters.
GATEPIERS AND GARDEN WALLS: 2 pairs of pyramidal capped ashlar gatepiers to Kirk Brae. Ashlar coped rubble garden walls.
GREENHOUSE: to NW of house, small cast-iron octagonal greenhouse with finials and coloured glass panels, contemporary with main house.
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