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8 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9273 / 55°55'38"N

Longitude: -3.189 / 3°11'20"W

OS Eastings: 325800

OS Northings: 671105

OS Grid: NT258711

Mapcode National: GBR 8PQ.JQ

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Z8KX

Plus Code: 9C7RWRG6+W9

Entry Name: 8 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 6-11 (Inclusive Nos) Glenisla Gardens

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371500

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30503

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 8 Glenisla Gardens

ID on this website: 200371500

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

J Bryan Nisbet, 1896. 3 pairs of single storey cottages with attics and basements on falling ground to rear, forming part of terrace. Cream (Nos 6-7), lemon (No 8), white (No 9) and dark blue (Nos 10-11) harling with grey sandstone dressings. Base course; cill band course; eaves cornice; advanced entrance blocks with lintel band courses, roll-moulded doorways and surrounds to single windows, aproned cornices to doorways, cornices and blocking courses; panelled doors; flat-roofed and piend-roofed bipartite box dormers.

W ENTRANCE elevation: each pair comprising 4 bays mirrored about centre; advanced entrances in 2nd and 3rd bays; doorways flanked by single windows to right and left respectively; bipartite windows in bays to outer left and right, flanked to centre by single lights; box dormers above each bay (piend-roofed in outer bays); replacement tripartite dormer at No 7. Sash and case windows with 2-pane lower sashes and 6-pane upper sashes; small panes to box dormers in 2 central bays of each pair. Grey-green slate roof; coped red brick stacks; terracotta ridge tiles and finials to piend-roofed dormers; coped gables; moulded eaves guttering; scroll skewputts.

Statement of Interest

Designed for William Watson, builder, and Peter MacKenzie, solicitor. Nisbet later completed 12-15 Glenisla gardens on the same design and G Lennox Beattie copied the form for Nos 1-5 (see separate listing).

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