Latitude: 55.9219 / 55°55'18"N
Longitude: -3.3802 / 3°22'48"W
OS Eastings: 313842
OS Northings: 670730
OS Grid: NT138707
Mapcode National: GBR 21.ZVZH
Mapcode Global: WH6SQ.1FM1
Plus Code: 9C7RWJC9+QW
Entry Name: 60 Main Street, Ratho
Listing Name: Ratho Village, 58-60 (Even Nos), Main Street
Listing Date: 22 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365106
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27777
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ratho, 60 Main Street
ID on this website: 200365106
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan house. Squared, Aberdeen Bond whinstone; droved sandstone margins and dressings. Base course.
S ELEVATION: central emphasis. 3 doors grouped at centre linked by stone platt. Centre deep-set door with letterbox fanlight raised higher than flanking doors; roll moulding above lintel. Corbelled, pedimented, advanced centrepiece at 1st floor; recessed at centre to accommodate window; bolection moulded architrave. String course runs between 2 corbelled sides of centrepiece. Above window corbelling supporting pediment. Pediment outlined by sandstone; blind oculus at centre. Chimney stack at apex; truncated pepperpot at each end. Windows flanking centre bays at ground and 1st floor level.
12-pane sash and case windows. Red pantiled roof; semi-circular, clay, ridge tiles. Ashlar coping to skews; roll-moulded skewputts. Square, rendered, coped apex stacks.
Formerly listed as 62-66, Main Street, Latona's. An early 20th century photograph shows a forestair to a door at 1st floor level to outer left, now very carefully removed and distinctive masonry instated almost indistinguishably.
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