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Latitude: 55.9818 / 55°58'54"N
Longitude: -3.2287 / 3°13'43"W
OS Eastings: 323432
OS Northings: 677220
OS Grid: NT234772
Mapcode National: GBR 8F3.H5
Mapcode Global: WH6SD.CXS4
Plus Code: 9C7RXQJC+PG
Entry Name: Cottage, Northern Lighthouse And Buoy Depot, 20 West Harbour Road, Granton, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 20 West Harbour Road, Including Rear Outbuildings
Listing Date: 16 September 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392619
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45659
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392619
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Later 19th century. Single storey, symmetrical, 3-bay, square-plan cottage built as part of adjacent lighthouse yard complex. Painted ashlar (yellow, 1997) with brick outbuildings. Painted stone base course; stone sills to windows.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance with rectangular fanlight and 4-panel timber door (formerly 2-leaf, now 1-leaf); flanking windows.
S ELEVATION: 3 windows (central one formerly rear entrance). Outbuildings adjoin at right angles to right.
E ELEVATION: adjoins single storey warehouse.
W ELEVATION: blank.
REAR OUTBUILDINGS: 2-bay painted brick lean-to section built at right angles along side of adjacent warehouse to rear (S); 3 boarded timber doors of varying dimensions (one partially glazed); single window between 1st and 2nd doors and to far right. Coped skewputt to S, where it adjoins outbuildings at 22 West Harbour Road.
Modified brick wall with concrete coping encloses square back yard of cottage.
Mainly 4 and 8-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roofs to cottage and storage block. 4 polychromatic coped brick wallhead stacks: 2 each to E and W sides of cottage (those to E have been rendered); round cans.
INTERIOR: not inspected (1997).
Built as part of 'Northern Lighthouse Stores and Buoy Yard'. The cottage was probably for the keeper of the yard. Listed as part of complex, which has remained largely unaltered and is still in use by the Northern Lighthouse Board as an engineering, storage and testing facility (1997).
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