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Gate Piers To Blacket Place, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9378 / 55°56'15"N

Longitude: -3.1722 / 3°10'20"W

OS Eastings: 326870

OS Northings: 672254

OS Grid: NT268722

Mapcode National: GBR 8SL.XZ

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.70NV

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQH+44

Entry Name: Gate Piers To Blacket Place, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 62 Dalkeith Road, Blacket Place Lodge, Including Gatepiers to Blacket Place

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366871

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28623

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Dalkeith Road, Gate Piers To Blacket Place

ID on this website: 200366871

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1825. Single storey, 3 bay symmetrical classical former gatelodge with single storey wing adjoining to S. Cream sandstone coursed rubble with droved dressings. Base course; advanced cills; stone canopies over windows and doorway; cornice; overhanging eaves.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway to advanced central bay; 2 leaf panelled door; small, plate glass fanlight; pediment breaking eaves above; bipartite windows in bays to outer right and left. Bipartite window to outer right of single storey wing to S; blocked doorway to outer left; lean-to with boarded door adjoining to S.

N (BLACKET PLACE) ENTRANCE: single bay; 3 light, full height, canted window.

Diamond pattern, leaded, mullioned and transomed windows. Red tiled piended roofs; tall, rendered octagonal stacks to S; octagonal moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

GATEPIERS: James Gillespie Graham, 1825. Pair of corniced Tudor Gothic gatepiers with blind traceried panels. Cream sandstone ashlar.

Statement of Interest

It was a condition of George Steuart's original feu contract of 1807 that all porters' lodges shoud be single storey. Porters' lodges were stipulated by the owners of the land in 1825, Benjamin and George Bell, as necessary for the maintenance of the privacy, convenience and security of their prospective residents. Similar gatepiers and lodges can be found at 74 and 122 Dalkeith Road: originally there were also gates to the Blacket estate which were locked every night.

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