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Latitude: 55.9526 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -3.1513 / 3°9'4"W
OS Eastings: 328207
OS Northings: 673885
OS Grid: NT282738
Mapcode National: GBR 8YF.5N
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.KNM0
Plus Code: 9C7RXR3X+2F
Entry Name: Manse, 19 Abercorn Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 19 Abercorn Road, with Boundary Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 19 December 2002
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 396611
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB49050
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Craigentinny/Duddingston
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Manse
Arthur George Sydney Mitchell, 1894. 2-storey, 2-bay asymmetrical manse. Rendered. Decorative applied timbering to gables. Swept roofs with timber barge boarding.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: penticed-roof canted window to left at ground floor; tripartite window above. Bipartite windows to right bay.
NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration. Advanced gable-ended section to centre bay; catslide roof to NE forming porch supported by single timber post; timber panelled door accessed by original decorative timber gate.
SW ELEVATION: advanced gable to left with 4-light canted window to 1st floor. Irregular fenestration elsewhere. Bracketed timber balcony to right
Predominantly 4-pane upper sashes and 2-pane lower sashes. Grey-green slates; red terracotta ridge tiles. Tall rendered corniced stacks; tall circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 2002.
BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: ashlar-coped rubble boundary wall stepped down hill to NW and NE; surmounted by plain cast-iron railings to NW only.
Built as the manse for The New Restalrig Parish Church (then called Restalrig Free Church). Still in use as the manse.
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