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Latitude: 55.9079 / 55°54'28"N
Longitude: -3.2532 / 3°15'11"W
OS Eastings: 321752
OS Northings: 669017
OS Grid: NT217690
Mapcode National: GBR 88Y.JP
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.0R4T
Plus Code: 9C7RWP5W+5P
Entry Name: 5 Rustic Cottages, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 4-7 (Inclusive Numbers) Rustic Cottages with Boundary Wall and Gates
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369966
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29684
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 5 Rustic Cottages
ID on this website: 200369966
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Colinton/Fairmilehead
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Sir Robert Lorimer, 1901. Single-storey and attic, 4-bay terrace of 4 cottages. English vernacular with advanced jerkin-headed gables to end bays; swept roof to centre over recessed doorways and canted window to ground; 2 boat-shaped dormers to attic. Painted render with sandstone cills to end gables. Basecourse, upper floor of end gable slightly corbelled out. Timber boarded doors with glazed upper sections to chamfered outer corners of end gables. Tripartite casements to gables. Identical doors to recessed inner bays; roof swept over, forming porch. Large canted window to centre. Bipartite casements to dormers above. 4 dormers to rear with piended-roofs, except that to No 5.
Predominantly 6-pane glazing to timber casements. Ashlar coped rendered stacks with tall red clay cans. Graded grey slate .
BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble boundary wall to N; some decorative wrought-iron gates. Ashlar-coped rendered boundary wall to W.
Together with numbers 1-2 and 3 Rustic Cottages, forms a picturesque group along Colinton Road, the main road into Colinton from Edinburgh. Built for J J Galletly, who owned Inchdrewer house (299 Colinton Rd). These cottages were perhaps influenced by Kirkton Cottages, Fortingall, Perthshire by James Maclaren. Lorimer also designed similar cottages for Linlithgow Bridge in 1899, and the boat-shaped dormer is found in a number of his other buildings.
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