We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 55.9318 / 55°55'54"N
Longitude: -3.1821 / 3°10'55"W
OS Eastings: 326241
OS Northings: 671598
OS Grid: NT262715
Mapcode National: GBR 8QP.X3
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.25ZG
Plus Code: 9C7RWRJ9+P5
Entry Name: Claremont, 52 Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3 and 3A South Lauder Road and 52 Fountainhall Road, Claremont, Including Gatepiers, Pedestrian Gateways and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 15 January 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371456
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30482
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 52 Fountainhall Road, Claremont
ID on this website: 200371456
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1878, in style of Robert Reid Raeburn. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with 2-storey piend-roofed service wing to rear; subdivided. Squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Base, dividing band, and eaves courses; stone bracketed cornice; long and short quoins; segmental-arched windows with chamfered reveals; aprons to advanced and canted windows.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps up to central ashlar porch comprising 2 detached Composite columns and 2 pilasters supporting entablature and balustraded balcony to 1st floor single window; tripartite doorway with panelled door and plate glass fanlight. Full-height canted window to outer left. Advanced tripartite window with bracketed cornice and lead canopy at ground floor to outer right; advanced bipartite window above.
N ELEVATION: 4-bay with recessed wing to E; bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors in bay to outer left; single windows in remaining bays except 1st floor inner right. Secondary entrance at ground floor to wing; 2 single windows above.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay with recessed wing to E; canted window with cornice and blocking course at ground floor in bay to outer left; bipartite window above. Advanced bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors in bay to outer right. Single window at 1st floor centre. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors of recessed wing; single window flanking to left between floors.
E ELEVATION: 2-storey service wing to outer right.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; 4 shouldered and deeply corniced stacks; truncated stack to service wing; 6-panel canted dormer to W; moulded eaves guttering; 2 skylights to S.
INTERIORS: not seen 1990.
GATEPIERS, GATEWAY, AND BOUNDARY WALLS: high coped rubble boundary wall to South Lauder Road and Grange loan; coped pedestrian gateway to Grange Loan; coped pedestrian gateway to Grange Loan; 2 corniced ashlar gatepiers with ball finials to South Lauder Road.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
