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Latitude: 55.9359 / 55°56'9"N
Longitude: -3.2123 / 3°12'44"W
OS Eastings: 324362
OS Northings: 672092
OS Grid: NT243720
Mapcode National: GBR 8JM.TM
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.M2J8
Plus Code: 9C7RWQPQ+93
Entry Name: 6 Merchiston Park, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 6 and 6A Merchiston Park
Listing Date: 3 February 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364257
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27198
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364257
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1860. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular plan villa with classical detail, single storey extension to side; grey sandstone, dressed ashlar front and NW elevations, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and side; base course; eaves cornice and blocking course; architraved and corniced windows, consoled at ground floor; chamfered reveals to canted bay; shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks.
NE (FRONT) ELEVATION: centre bay with painted enclosed pilastered porch (addition) with cornice and blocking course with ball finials, 2-leaf panelled door, tiled vestibule, small window flanking to left with leaded panes and stained glass border, single window at 1st floor above; outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor; single storey flat-roofed extension to left with 3 single windows.
NW ELEVATION: 3-bay; full-height canted window to right bay with cornice and blocking course, canted timber dormer with dentilled cornice above; single windows to ground and 1st floor of centre and left bays; small lean-to glazed porch to secondary door to left of centre, wallhead stack above.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; blank bay to left with modern lean-to glazed extension, wallhead stack; centre bay blank with ghost of 2 blocked windows, bipartite box dormer; bay to right with large window with timber surround of pilasters and dentilled cornice, leaded panes, bipartite window at 1st floor above; single storey extension to right with rear door to left, single window to right.
SE ELEVATION: single storey extension at ground floor; central round-arched stair window with leaded lights and stained glass border at 1st floor; 2 wallhead stacks.
Timber sash and case windows, mostly 2-pane upper sashes, 4-pane lower sashes; slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: large vestibule and arcaded hall with neo-medieval tiling; timber stair with turned balusters and newel post with carved dragon (rampant); ornate cornices; rear drawing room with elaborately carved timber fireplace with copper canopy with Art Noveau motifs.
Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, coped gatepiers with metal ball finials.
The small size of the fenestrian suggests that 6 Merchiston Park was possibly moved from elsewhere and re-erected with alterations or that the design was very retrograde. It is included in the lists for its unusual form among the Merchiston villas.
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