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Demijohn Cottage, Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Almond, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9334 / 55°56'0"N

Longitude: -3.3892 / 3°23'21"W

OS Eastings: 313305

OS Northings: 672016

OS Grid: NT133720

Mapcode National: GBR 21.Z6JG

Mapcode Global: WH6SP.X477

Plus Code: 9C7RWJM6+88

Entry Name: Demijohn Cottage, Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Glasgow Road, Norton House Hotel, Former West Lodge, Demijohn Cottage with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 17 May 1991

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364295

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27222

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364295

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Almond

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description

Style of David Bryce, mid 19th century. Single storey, asymmetrical, gabled, L-plan lodge. Squared and snecked whinstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. Chamfered margins. Contrasting quoins.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: 4-bay large masonry blocks; advanced gabled bay to outer left, gabled porch immediately to right, original door now blocked as window. 2 windows in bays to right. Modern addition to E with entrance.

Plate glass casement and top-hopper modern windows. Broad, bracketted eaves with plain bargeboards and finials to gable. Grey slate roof. Shouldered, corniced stacks with chamfered angles.

Modern rubble wall cuts off area of lodge from Norton House avenue.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: stugged coursed red sandstone boundary wall with ashlar semi-circular coping. Ashlar gatepiers with corniced, conical caps.

Statement of Interest

Norton House and associated buildings within the grounds are listed separately. The North lodge, built in similar style appears to be earlier. The West lodge is now known as Demijohn Cottage.

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