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Latitude: 55.9799 / 55°58'47"N
Longitude: -3.2173 / 3°13'2"W
OS Eastings: 324136
OS Northings: 676993
OS Grid: NT241769
Mapcode National: GBR 8H3.SV
Mapcode Global: WH6SD.KY4M
Plus Code: 9C7RXQHM+X3
Entry Name: 116 Wardie Cottages, Lower Granton Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 113-118 (Consecutive Nos) Lower Granton Road
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370457
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29887
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370457
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Workers cottage
Circa 1855. Single storey and attic; terrace of 6 2-bay cottages. Brick with stone dressings. Stone sills to windows.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: alternating reversed plans. Entrance and single window to ground floor and 2 windows to 1st floor to each cottage. Boarded timber doors to Nos 113, 114, 117 and 118; 4-panel timber door to No 116; replacement door to No 115; rectangular fanlight (mainly 4-pane) to each. Cast iron bootscraper with brick recess to side of entrance to each cottage, apart from between Nos 116 & 117 and at No 118.
S ELEVATION: 2-storey catslide extensions with paired dormers to rear (S) of all except Nos 114 and 116.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: blank harled side elevations.
12-pane timber sash and case windows, except for 115 which has fixed single panes with small top-hung casements above and rear extensions (various replacement windows). Grey slate piended roof. 3 brick ridge stacks with stone coping - 1 at each internal divide between cottages.
INTERIORS: not inspected 1997
B group with Nos 1-6, 8-20, 21-23 and 24-30 Wardie Square and Nos 110-112 and 119-144 Lower Granton Road. Contemporary with the construction of Granton Harbour (1836-63) whose workers it was presumably intended to accommodate.
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