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Latitude: 55.9315 / 55°55'53"N
Longitude: -3.1829 / 3°10'58"W
OS Eastings: 326190
OS Northings: 671572
OS Grid: NT261715
Mapcode National: GBR 8QP.R6
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.25LN
Plus Code: 9C7RWRJ8+JR
Entry Name: 54 Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 54 Fountainhall Road Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 15 January 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371248
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30377
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 54 Fountainhall Road
ID on this website: 200371248
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1885. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with service wing attached. Squared and snecked rubble; coursed stugged ashlar with poklished ashlar dressings to S (entrance) elevation. Base course, dividing and eaves cornices; raised long and short quoins; segmental-arched windows at 1st floor; roll-moulded arrises to window surrounds.
S (ENTRANCE) elevation: central round-arched pilaster-flanked and architraved doorpiece with masque keystone and 2 paterae, fluted consoles bearing cornice, and decorative stone balustrade; 2-leaf panelled door, with glazed upper panels; plate glass fanlight; raised single window at 1st floor above. Full-height canted window in bay to outer left. Advanced tripartite window in bay to outer left. Advanced tgripartite window at ground floor to outer right rising into bipartite window at 1st floor with scroll detail at base.
W ELEVTION: timmber-framed conservatory with iron finial at ground floor to outer right; 2-storey service wing to outer left; 3 single windows at 1st floor.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; moulded eaves guttering; 2 shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks; moulded octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1990.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low saddlebacked wall to Fountainhall Road, rising to W, with coped pedestrian gateway and paired coped ashlar gatepiers. High coped boundary wall to E, continuing into South Lauder Road.
Similar in a number of respects to Nos 55 and 57 Fountainhall Road (listed separately) by John McLachlan.
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