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8 Gilmour Road, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9294 / 55°55'45"N

Longitude: -3.1714 / 3°10'17"W

OS Eastings: 326904

OS Northings: 671326

OS Grid: NT269713

Mapcode National: GBR 8TP.2Y

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.8718

Plus Code: 9C7RWRHH+QC

Entry Name: 8 Gilmour Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7 and 8 Gilmour Road, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390910

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44216

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390910

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Late 19th century. 2 storey, 4 bay symmetrical pair of classical houses. Cream sandstone polished ashlar. Base course; cill courses

to ground and 1st floor windows; pilastered mullions between lights to canted bays; dividing band course; cornice; panelled parapet; channelled quoins; stylized, full height pilasters flanking doorways (and windows above) chanelled at ground.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorways to basket arched recesses to 2 central bays; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; parapets to single windows to basket arched recesses above. Full height, 3 light canted windows to bays to outer right and left.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows. Shallow roof; wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall to street; replacement railings.

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