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169 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9243 / 55°55'27"N

Longitude: -3.1715 / 3°10'17"W

OS Eastings: 326889

OS Northings: 670750

OS Grid: NT268707

Mapcode National: GBR 8TR.2T

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.8C07

Plus Code: 9C7RWRFH+P9

Entry Name: 169 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 169 Mayfield Road and 43 Esslemont Road, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390927

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44226

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 169 Mayfield Road

ID on this website: 200390927

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

H E Clifford, 1911. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan house. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Cornice.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single storey corniced entrance porch to SE: 4-centred arch with keystone, tripartite window in wall to right; tripartite window with stone mullions to central bay of ground floor and to 1st floor above; tripartite dormer to 2nd storey; 6-light canted window with stone mullions to ground of bay to left; stone-mullioned quadripartite window to 1st floor above; quadripartite dormer to 2nd floor; full-height 4-light bowed window in bay to right; quadripartite dormer to attic.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; dormer windows replaced in PVCu (1997); leaded window to porch has stained glass motifs. Grey slate piended roof; shouldered and deeply corniced gablehead stacks; ridge stack; mutual corniced stack with 37 Esslemont Road; tall moulded cans; coped skews.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary walls to Mayfield Road and Esslemont Road.

Statement of Interest

Clifford's practice, based in St Vincent Street, Glasgow, was active mainly in the West. Notable exceptions were Perth City Hall and Dewar's bond, also in Perth. This is a rare domestic work in Edinburgh for Mrs Margaret Huison Russell (Lamont-Campbell).

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