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Latitude: 55.9314 / 55°55'52"N
Longitude: -3.2214 / 3°13'17"W
OS Eastings: 323786
OS Northings: 671595
OS Grid: NT237715
Mapcode National: GBR 8GP.Z8
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.H56S
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJH+GC
Entry Name: 45-47 Spylaw Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 45/1, 2, 3, 4-47 (Odd Numbers) Spylaw Road and Boundary Wall and 5 Mid Gillsland Road
Listing Date: 30 January 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364563
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27404
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 45-47 Spylaw Road
ID on this website: 200364563
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1875. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with flat-roofed service blocks and raised stair block to rear; cream ashlar, stugged ashlar front and NE elevation with polished dressings, squared and snecked stugged ashlar to rear; base course; banded string course above ground floor; rusticated quoins; eaves cornice with blocking course; bracketted cills; ashlar mullions.
NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced central bay with quoins and Roman Doric entrance porch, frieze, cornice and blocking course, architraved and pilastered door surround, 2-leaf panelled door, marble vestibule, inner door with semi-circular astragalled fanlight; single window at 1st floor above; bay to left with tripartite window at ground floor, bipartite window at 1st floor; bay to left with full-height canted window (1-2-1). NE (GILLSLAND ROAD) ELEVATION: 4-bay, single windows in outer left bay; bay to left of centre with full-height canted window (1-2-1); single windows in bay to right of centre; outer right bay with advanced tripartite window at ground floor, bipartite window at 1st floor above; single storey recessed service bay to left with bipartite window. Tripartite box dormer to roof.
SW ELEVATION: large single storey and attic modern extension; large box dormer to roof.
SE (REAR) ELEVATION: assorted flat-roofed projections, 3-storey stair block to left with 2 stair windows of leaded panes; 2-storey projection to centre with cast-iron brattishing; shouldered corniced wallhead stack to right; 2 small box dormers to roof.
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing; Scottish slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 2 corniced central stacks, 1 wallhead stack (see above).
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
BOUNDARY WALL: tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping and inset broken glass to rear, low rubble wall with saddleback coping to front and side, cast-iron gatepiers and gate.
Previously listed as 45(formerly7) Spylaw Road.Address changed 12 October 1999. The lawns close to the house have been banked. The property is now sub-divided into flats and the grounds have been extensively developed with new houses.
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