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Latitude: 55.9387 / 55°56'19"N
Longitude: -3.2056 / 3°12'20"W
OS Eastings: 324788
OS Northings: 672393
OS Grid: NT247723
Mapcode National: GBR 8LL.5M
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QZQQ
Plus Code: 9C7RWQQV+FQ
Entry Name: 55, 56 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 55 and 56 Bruntsfield Place Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366198
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28377
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 55, 56 Bruntsfield Place
ID on this website: 200366198
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1826-7. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical plain classical villa with single storey wings. Polished sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground; coursed rubble to sides. Base course; string course to ground floor; dividing band course; cill course; cornice; blocking course, advanced at centre; architraved windows to 1st floor.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pilastered central doorway; boarded timber door with decorative strap hinges; round-arched plate glass fanlight above; single window to 1st floor above; single windows to flanking bays at ground set in recessed round-arched panels; single windows to 1st floor above; 2-light window to wing to right, timber door to wing to left, both within round-arched panels.
2-pane timber sash and case windows; PVCu window to wing to right. Grey slate piended roof; corniced wallhead stacks with moulded cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped rubble boundary walls to street; mutual coped coursed rubble boundary walls.
Built for John Walker 1826-7.
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