Description

Circa 1835 with later 19th century additions. 2 storey, 3 bay symmetrical, classical house. Cream sandstone polished ashlar. Base course; strip quoins; panelled aprons to ground floor windows; dividing band course; eaves course and dentilled cornice to 1st floor windows; carved circular motifs to pediments above; dentilled, overhanging eaves.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central, basket arched doorway;

2 leaf, panelled outer door; corbelled cornice to doorpiece; deeply recessed single window with architrave to 1st floor above. Full height, 3 light canted windows to flanking pedimented bays.

E (BLACKET AVENUE) ELEVATION: 3 bay; modern single storey extension to outer right; blind window to 1st floor above; regular fenestration to remaining bays; segmental arched dormer above.

Predominantly plate glass, timber, sash and case windows; some 12 pane to E. Grey slate pitched roofs; coped ridge stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, PEDESTRIAN AND CARRIAGE GATES: high, coped rubble boundary walls to street; tall, square plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps; pedestrian gate to N. Wing wall with pedestrian gate adjoining house to E; carriage gate adjoining to W now as garage.

Statement of Interest

The Blacket development was executed from 1825 onwards by eminent Edinburgh surgeons Benjamin and George Bell according to plans by James Gillespie Graham. Blacket Avenue was primarily to serve as access to Newington House, the mansion Benjamin Bell designed for himself which was demolished in 1966. Belleville Lodge is therefore one of the few houses on the Avenue. It takes its name from the colloquial name for Newington prior to full development. The Lodge has the largest garden in the area in which a cow was kept in the 1880s thus fulfilling the Bells' intention that the Blacket residences should be essentially country houses but with all the facilities of city life.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772202

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)