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3 York Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9763 / 55°58'34"N

Longitude: -3.203 / 3°12'10"W

OS Eastings: 325021

OS Northings: 676580

OS Grid: NT250765

Mapcode National: GBR 8L5.P4

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.R1YS

Plus Code: 9C7RXQGW+GQ

Entry Name: 3 York Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 3 York Road, with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 370725

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29994

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 3 York Road

ID on this website: 200370725

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Forth

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1820. Plain classical 2-storey 3-bay piend-roofed house. Sandstone ashlar to front, random rubble to sides and rear. Base course, dividing course, eaves cornice.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: regular fenestration, unusually tall at ground with low cills. Timber panelled door with bat-wing fanlight over, in architraved doorpiece.

16-pane lying-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Modern roofing material Stone coped corniced wallhead stacks with octagonal cans.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: low stone-coped rubble boundary wall; corniced panelled ashlar gatepiers (painted).

Statement of Interest

Originally known as Tower Park Cottage. Built in the 1st phase of feuing by the lawyer Alexander Scott of the lands of Trinity Mains farm. The intended feuing is shown on Kirkwood's 1817 map.

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