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Fernbank, 40 Main Street, Ratho

A Category C Listed Building in Pentland Hills, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9222 / 55°55'19"N

Longitude: -3.3789 / 3°22'43"W

OS Eastings: 313929

OS Northings: 670761

OS Grid: NT139707

Mapcode National: GBR 21.ZWC1

Mapcode Global: WH6SQ.2D9T

Plus Code: 9C7RWJCC+VF

Entry Name: Fernbank, 40 Main Street, Ratho

Listing Name: Ratho Village, 40 Main Street, Fernbank and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 8 March 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 365075

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27757

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200365075

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1860. Single storey and attic, 3-bay villa detailed cottage. Coursed whinstone; stugged sandstone margins and raised quoins (now painted); sandstone rubble to side elevation. Base course; eaves band.

MAIN ELEVATION: deep-set door at centre, doorcase of slender pilasters and consoles supporting triangular dentillated pediment which breaks eaves. Full-height flanking canted windows with blocking courses. Canted, half-piend dormers behind bay windows.

SIDE ELEVATION: (left return) gabled; blocked window at attic level.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; ashlar coping to skew; square, corniced apex stack.

WALL: low whinstone boundary wall with ashlar slab coping.

Statement of Interest

The cottage is not marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but is indicated on the 1895 edition.

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