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Latitude: 55.9272 / 55°55'37"N
Longitude: -3.208 / 3°12'28"W
OS Eastings: 324614
OS Northings: 671114
OS Grid: NT246711
Mapcode National: GBR 8KQ.PR
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.P9K0
Plus Code: 9C7RWQGR+VQ
Entry Name: Ainslie Cottage, 5 Jordan Lane, Morningside, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 Jordan Lane, Ainslie Cottage, and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 29 April 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364641
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27460
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364641
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Earlier 19th century. Single storey 3-bay cottage. Cream sandstone, coursed and squared rubble, droved dressings, droved ashlar quoins.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: architraved entrance doorway at centre with panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight; single windows flanking. N (JORDAN LANE) ELEVATION: single window to each bay.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: gabled with apex stacks (rebuilt).
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Slate roof; droved ashlar skews.
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
BOUNDARY WALL: tall rubble wall with flat coping flanking Jordan Lane elevation and over Pedestrian doorway.
An interesting and mostly unaltered survival amidst late 19th century towering tenements.
George Meikle Kemp (1795-1844) the architect who designed the Scott Monument on Princes Street is thought to have lived at this address in later life.
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