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Latitude: 55.9354 / 55°56'7"N
Longitude: -3.1695 / 3°10'10"W
OS Eastings: 327035
OS Northings: 671986
OS Grid: NT270719
Mapcode National: GBR 8TM.GT
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.82YP
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPJ+55
Entry Name: Gate-Piers And Entrance Gate, Boundary Walls, Newington Lodge, 38 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 38 Mayfield Terrace, Newington Lodge, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, and Entablatured Entrance Gate
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368930
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29314
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 38 Mayfield Terrace, Newington Lodge, Boundary Walls, Gate-piers And Entrance Gate
ID on this website: 200368930
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1828. Single storey symmetrical 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with basement and single storey wings to basement. Cream painted sandstone ashlar. Base course; cill course; cornice; blocking course, raised at centre; architraved windows.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps up to doorcase supported by Greek Doric columns with pilasters behind; moulded band, cornice and blocking course, raised at centre, to entablature; timber panelled door with glazed fanlight; carved plaque to blocking course; single windows to flanking bays with blind balustrades below cill course.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof.
4 octagonal corniced stacks with corniced cans. Decorative wrought-iron balusters and handrail flanking steps to entrance doorcase.
INTERIOR: not seen (1996).
BOUNDARY WALLS: Coped ashlar boundary walls and gatepiers to street. Recent wrought-iron railings to boundary walls. Decorative wrought iron pedestrian gate flanked by painted pilastered entrance with cornice and blocking course, raised at centre.
Home of the pioneer photographer David Octavius Hill for the last years of his life.
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