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20 Corrennie Gardens, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9202 / 55°55'12"N

Longitude: -3.2067 / 3°12'24"W

OS Eastings: 324683

OS Northings: 670334

OS Grid: NT246703

Mapcode National: GBR 8KT.Y8

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.QG6C

Plus Code: 9C7RWQCV+38

Entry Name: 20 Corrennie Gardens, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 14 Hermitage Drive and 20 Corrennie Gardens

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364592

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27426

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364592

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Style of Professor F W Simon, circa 1900. Pair of substantial 2-storey and attic semi-detached houses with rear service projection. Red sandstone, square and snecked stugged rubble with polished dressings. Chamfered reveals; tall tapering stacks linked to roof over single shoulder; shallow half-piend roofs to 1st floor window to front, catslide to rear; ashlar mullions.

E (CORRENNIE GARDENS) ELEVATION: 6-bay; symmetrical with advanced outer bays with half-piend roofs, canted windows with half-piend roofs at ground floor, single window at 1st floor above. Central bays with tripartite windows to ground floor; single windows at 1st floor. Bays to left and right of centre with single windows to ground and 1st floor and tall wallhead stacks. Single storey recessed entrance porches to outer left and right.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay; flat-roofed stone entrance porch at centre with 2 narrow vestibule windows, roll-moulded corniced doorway with panelled door on return to E; single window at 1st floor to centre flanked by smaller windows; wallhead stack to left of centre. Narrow tripartite dormer. N (HERMITAGE DRIVE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, flat-roofed stone entrance porch at centre with scalloped parapet, corniced and roll-moulded doorway with panelled door, single window flanking to right with leaded lights, single window on return; Venetian stair window at 1st floor above. Outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor. Wallhead stacks to right of centre.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 6-bay; central single storey service projection with tall tile-hung mansard roof; single windows to remaining bays. Small-pane timber sash and case windows. Red tile piend and platform roof, crested red ridge tiles; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), 2 central stacks, tapering cylindrical cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and side, low wall with saddleback coping to S and E, later gates.

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