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Latitude: 55.9226 / 55°55'21"N
Longitude: -3.3778 / 3°22'40"W
OS Eastings: 313996
OS Northings: 670806
OS Grid: NT139708
Mapcode National: GBR 21.ZWMX
Mapcode Global: WH6SQ.2DSH
Plus Code: 9C7RWJFC+2V
Entry Name: 8 Baird Road, Ratho, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Ratho Village, 8 and 10 Baird Road, with Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 8 March 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365015
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27715
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Ratho, 8 Baird Road
ID on this website: 200365015
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 5-bay rectangular- plan pair of cottages. Coursed, squared whinstone; droved sandstone margins and quoins.
MAIN ELEVATION: No 10 to left, 2-bay; boarded door; plate glass fanlight. Mutual skew marks division between cottages. No 8 to right, 3-bay near-symmetrical (1-2). Door (modern) at centre; letterbox fanlight; flanking windows.
12-pane sash and case window at no 10; 8-pane sash and case windows at no 8; skylights in roof of both cottages. Grey slate roofs; ashlar skews; rendered and coped apex stacks.
WALL AND GATEPIERS: stugged, coursed sandstone wall; ashlar coping; slender square piers with chamfered arrises and conical heads.
The houses along with others on Baird Road were the results of improvements carried out by Robert Liston of Millburn Tower, who was keen to make Ratho into a model village. They are shown on the 1st edition OS map and are listed Cat B in consideration of the dwarf walls and obelisk piers, continuous with neighbours.
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