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Latitude: 55.9165 / 55°54'59"N
Longitude: -3.2226 / 3°13'21"W
OS Eastings: 323681
OS Northings: 669945
OS Grid: NT236699
Mapcode National: GBR 8GV.QL
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.GKN5
Plus Code: 9C7RWQ8G+JX
Entry Name: 47 Greenbank Drive, City Hospital, Greenbank Drive, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 47 and 48 Greenbank Drive
Listing Date: 13 February 2002
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395809
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48389
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395809
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Morham, circa 1900. Asymmetrical pair of semi-detached 2-storey barge-boarded gabled Arts and Crafts cottages in garden ground. Red glazed brick to ground floor, white rendering above; red octagonal tile-hanging to gables. Base course; stepped tiled course between ground and 1st floors; broad bracketed eaves.
W ELEVATION: recessed porches to outer right and left with brick piers to corners; glazed timber panelled doors. Projecting gabled bay 2nd from left with tripartite window to ground, bipartite to 1st floor. Pentice-roofed canted window to ground in 2nd bay from right, tripartite window with gabled dormerhead breaking eaves above.
N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: brick pier of porch to W; gabled bay with single window above; single storey to E.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 broad gabled bays. Irregular fenestration; glazed timber doors to outer right and left.
Predominantly 4-pane glazing to upper sashes, plate glass lower, in timber sash and case windows. Red tiles to roof; decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Corniced red brick stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron down pipes.
Built as part of the City Hospital, originally a fever hospital, by Robert Morham, City Architect, 1896-1903.
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