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Latitude: 55.9427 / 55°56'33"N
Longitude: -3.278 / 3°16'40"W
OS Eastings: 320275
OS Northings: 672924
OS Grid: NT202729
Mapcode National: GBR 83K.H5
Mapcode Global: WH6SK.MW8L
Plus Code: 9C7RWPVC+3R
Entry Name: 26 St John's Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 26 St John's Road Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 11 November 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391403
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44756
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391403
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Corstorphine/Murrayfield
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
1896. 2-storey, 3-bay irregular plan baronial house. Coursed, squared and snecked sandstone; ashlar dressings. Base course; stepped dividing band course; stugged quoins. Crowstepped gables; thistle and ball finials.
S (ENTRANCE ELEVATION): roll-moulded near-central doorway; stained glass window to right; carved decorative tablet above dated 1896;
2 single windows at 1st floor. Conical-roof to stair-tower to left; stained glass window; single windows above and below. 3 light canted bay window at ground and 1st floor in advanced bay to outer left; single window at gable. 3-light canted bay window at ground and 1st in advanced bay to right; single window set in gablehead; conical-roof bartizan to outer right; single window. Modern brick extensions to outer left, outer right, and rear; conservatory to outer left.
Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows; Velux rooflights; stained glass. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; moulded skewputts; corniced ridge and wallhead stacks; circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low, coped squared, snecked and stugged sandstone wall; pyramidal caps to square-plan gatepiers.
Private house, converted for nursing home, later 20th century.
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