Description

Later 19th century. 2-storey, with 1st floor breaking eaves, mirrored pair of 3-bay houses (No 51 to left, No 53 to right), linked by single-storey bays. W elevation stugged squared and snecked masonry (No 53 stone cleaned), remaining elevations rubble; ashlar dressings. Base course. Chamfered margins, stopped before cill. Curvilinear dormerheads.

W (BONNYRIGG ROAD) ELEVATION: No 51: doorway at centre, with raised margin, cornice and angled tablet; panelled door and 2-pane fanlight. Canted window in bay to left, with cornice and blocking course. Tripartite window in advanced panel in bay to right, with cornice. Bipartite windows in advanced panels breaking eaves in outer bays at 1st floor; bracketted skewputts, kneelers and fleur-de-lis finials to dormerheads. Window in screen wall, slightly recessed to right. No 53: mirror image of No 51, with canted window in bay to right, except bipartite window in advanced panel in bay to left; window in screen wall to left.

N ELEVATION, NO 51: blank.

Plate glass glazing pattern in sash and case windows to No 51, modern glazing to No 53. Coped skews carried across gablehead. Gablehead stacks. Purple slates. Moulded eaves gutter. Original cans.

Saddleback coped rubblewall to N, with "VR" postbox.

Statement of Interest

Listed, despite glazing alterations to No 53, as an interesting pair of mirrored later 19th century villas. They are grouped with Nos 55 and 57 Bonnyrigg Road (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56629681

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record