Gospatric House, Main Street, Dalmeny, Almond, Edinburgh

Entry Name: Gospatric House, Main Street, Dalmeny

Listing Name: Dalmeny Village, Main Street, Gospatric House, Including Terrace Walls, Garden Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 30 January 1981

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 337005

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5526

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200337005

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Almond

Traditional County: West Lothian

Tagged with: House

Description

Earlier to mid 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house, substantially enlarged in 1870 by J Maitland Wardrop with 2-storey and attic range parallel to N, extending to W and clasping contemporary entrance porch in re-entrant angle to S; single storey and attic wing of same date at E end, terminated by single storey at gable. Rubble walls, polished ashlar dressings to core; stugged, squared and snecked sandstone walls with stugged and droved dressings to additions. Projecting cills to windows.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; W gable of N range advanced at left, bipartite window centred at ground, single window at 1st floor, and architraved panel at gablehead. W gable of core recessed at right; single storey gabled porch disposed to left in re-entrant angle, comprising bipartite window in S side, pointed-arched door with armorial panel and hoodmould above, centred in W gable; narrow window to outer left at 1st floor in gable behind.

S ELEVATION: symmetrical, blank at ground in centre bay, bipartite windows in bays to left and right, regular fenestration at 1st floor.

N (GARDEN) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; principal block at right comprising 2 widely-spaced bays; single window at ground in bay to left, 2 windows flanking bay at 1st floor; ball-finialed 2-storey, 3-light canted window breaking eaves in bay to right with small window centred in gable rising behind. Regularly fenestrated 2-bay elevation of wing extending to left; dormers with gabled stone dormerheads, breaking eaves in each bay at 1st floor.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows; graded grey slate roof, slate-hung gabled timber dormers with bipartite windows and overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and timber barge boards; cast-iron rainwater goods; stugged sandstone stacks with deep corniced copes and circular cans, 3-flue gablehead stacks to core and E gables of addition, shouldered wallhead stack to S side of latter.

TERRACE WALLS, GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPIERS: ashlar garden terrace wall with urn. Rubble garden wall to road with square droved ashlar gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Dalmeny Kirk, 1-3 (inclusive) Easter Dalmeny Cottages, 1-6 (inclusive) and 9-15 (inclusive) Dalmeny Village Main Street, Dalmeny Village Telephone Kiosk, Dalmeny Village War Memorial, 1-4 ( inclusive) Wester Dalmeny Farm Cottages, Wester Dalmeny Farmhouse and Wester Dalmeny Steading (see separate listings).

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