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Latitude: 55.9351 / 55°56'6"N
Longitude: -3.2061 / 3°12'21"W
OS Eastings: 324750
OS Northings: 671996
OS Grid: NT247719
Mapcode National: GBR 8LM.2X
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Q2HW
Plus Code: 9C7RWQPV+2H
Entry Name: 11 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 11 Greenhill Gardens
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364478
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27345
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364478
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1850. 2-storey 3-bay L-plan house with later rear addition (1880). Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with droved ashlar dressings. Base course; bracketted cills; ashlar mullions; coped stacks with block corbels.
E (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to centre with projecting pilastered and corniced doorway with chamfered reveals, 2-leaf panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight; tall segmental-arched and keystoned stair window with shaped margins at 1st floor above. Outer bays with projecting bowed bipartite window surrounds at ground floor, segmental-arched cornice with shaped keystone; single window at 1st floor just breaking eaves with half-piend roof.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced bay to right (1880) with single storey projection with 1930s bowed bay window; single storey projection in re-entrant angle; single storey flat-roofed outhouses to right.
S ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed garage at ground floor; 2 wallhead stacks.
N ELEVATION: wallhead stack.
Timber sash and case windows with 12-lying-pane glazing. Piend slate roof with metal flashings; 3 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack, some octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: hall re-decorated by Esme Gordon with plaster cameos of his children over husk garlands, timber staircase with cast-iron balustrade of anthemion flanked by palmettes.
Tall rubble wall to rear and sides with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with flat coping of droved ashlar.
The villa was for some time the residence of the architect Esme Gordon and he carried out alterations to the interior and replaced the canted window of 1880 with a bowed 1930s version.
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