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Latitude: 55.9406 / 55°56'26"N
Longitude: -3.2241 / 3°13'26"W
OS Eastings: 323638
OS Northings: 672627
OS Grid: NT236726
Mapcode National: GBR 8GK.FY
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.FYY7
Plus Code: 9C7RWQRG+69
Entry Name: Lodge, Dalry Cemetery, Dalry Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Dalry Road, Dalry Cemetery Lodge
Listing Date: 9 February 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363602
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26786
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Dalry Road, Dalry Cemetery, Lodge
ID on this website: 200363602
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Sighthill/Gorgie
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
Probably David Cousin, 1846. 2-storey Tudor Gothic lodge.
2-storey with 1st floor breaking eaves. Greek cross plan, largely symmetrical. Steeply pitched gabled roofs to each jamb. Squared and snecked ashlar, scarred and patched after intensive cleaning and restoration; polished ashlar margins. Windows to each floor; hoodmoulds. NE jamb with door to left at basement level; forestairs to ground floor door to right. Buttresses flank square- headed cusped 3-light ground floor windows to NW and SE elevations; oriel window at 1st floor to NW; bipartite at 1st floor to SE; slit attic windows to all jambs but SW.
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Sawtooth skews; gablet skewputts with niches; stone fleur-de-lys to each gablehead; stone ridge; grey fish- scale slates. Chimneys in re-entrant angles to N and S (paired tudor diamond shaped stacks removed during restoration).
The cemetery was originally known as the Dalry Necropolis, and was a property of the Metropolitan Cemetery Association. The cemetery, gates and boundary walls are listed separately.
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