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Latitude: 55.9445 / 55°56'40"N
Longitude: -3.2804 / 3°16'49"W
OS Eastings: 320128
OS Northings: 673126
OS Grid: NT201731
Mapcode National: GBR 83J.0K
Mapcode Global: WH6SK.LV37
Plus Code: 9C7RWPV9+RR
Entry Name: 26 Clermiston Road With Postbox In Boundary Wall, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 26 Clermiston Road Including Boundary Walls, Postbox and Outhouse
Listing Date: 11 November 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391393
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44748
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391393
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Corstorphine/Murrayfield
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1903. Single storey with attic, 3-bay, asymmetrical L-plan house with longer wing to right. Whitewashed harl; red sandstone ashlar dressings. Cill course; advanced chamfered base course; overhanging bracketed timber eaves; projecting cills; long and short surrounds to openings.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: roll-moulded central doorway; panelled timber door; 12-pane fanlight; plaque to right; single light catslide dormer. 2-light window at ground in advanced bay to left; 2 light gabled dormer. 3 light canted bay window at ground to right; 2 light box dormer.
S (GORDON ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Advanced 3-bays to left comprising central gabled bay; transomed and mullioned stained glass stair window set within; single windows flanking at ground. Box dormer facing E. Recessed bay to right comprising single window to outer left; advanced timber porch to left; replacement 2-leaf door; single casement window to outer right.
Predominantly timber sash and case windows with 6-, 9- and 12-pane glazing to upper sashes at ground; 9-pane to upper sashes in dormers. Red tiled piended roofs. Corniced gablehead and battered wallhead stacks; circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS, POSTBOX, AND OUTHOUSE: low coped boundary wall to Gordon Road elevation; stepped up to higher squared and snecked rubble wall to E; postbox within wall. Stepped low coped boundary wall and fencing with pedestrian and vehicular entrances to Clermison Road elevation. Painted timber outhouse to E; piended roof.
Notable for its stained glass, broad eaves and prominent chimney stacks.
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