Description

Circa 1840. 2-storey (3-storey at rear), 6-bay, symmetrical rectangular-plan houses. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged quoins and long and short surrounds. Eaves course and cornice; architraved doorpieces; block cills to 1st floor windows.

N ELEVATION: doorpieces to outer bays at ground; window to each intervening bay; single windows to all bays, upper floor; centred windows at mezzanine level to W elevation; bracketed 2-storey rectangular-plan projecting bay at rear of No 43.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to front elevation. Grey slate piended roof; coped shouldered wallhead stacks with cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped squared and snecked sandstone wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Largely intact plain Classical pair of villas. One of the earlier developments of Corstorphine Road.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631857

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)