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Latitude: 55.874 / 55°52'26"N
Longitude: -3.1212 / 3°7'16"W
OS Eastings: 329946
OS Northings: 665110
OS Grid: NT299651
Mapcode National: GBR 60NJ.25
Mapcode Global: WH6T1.1M07
Plus Code: 9C7RVVFH+JG
Entry Name: Summer House, Polton House
Listing Name: Polton Road, Polton Summerhouse
Listing Date: 14 March 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 345993
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13020
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Polton House, Summer House
ID on this website: 200345993
Location: Lasswade
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Bonnyrigg
Parish: Lasswade
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Holiday home Summer house
Earlier 18th century. 2-storey square-plan summerhouse. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Chamfered reveals to openings; eaves course. Centred window at each floor to SW. Forestair with some brick shoring and coped walls to 1st floor boarded door offset to right on NW elevation; vestigial wallhead stack centred. 2 relieving arches above a square opening, now with replacement boarded, 2-leaf garage doors, centred at ground to NE elevation; iron grille to window off set to right at 1st floor above. (Grilles removed from other windows). Lean-to addition at ground on SE face; window centred above.
Variety of glazing patterns including replacement 8- and 2- pane timber sash and case windows; fixed plate glass window to SE. Pyramidal grey slate roof, swept at eaves, with diamond pattern to SW; flat roof to lean-to addition; lead remnant of gutter to NW elevation.
INTERIOR: roof construction exposed; chimney-piece with bolection moulded frieze remains.
Polton House, to which the summerhouse was allied was built circa 1730 and is now demolished. The interior was once lined with trompe-l'oeil panels which were removed by Lord Perth in 1983 and installed in another garden building at Stobhall, Perthshire.
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