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Latitude: 55.9334 / 55°56'0"N
Longitude: -3.1938 / 3°11'37"W
OS Eastings: 325512
OS Northings: 671795
OS Grid: NT255717
Mapcode National: GBR 8NN.KJ
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X496
Plus Code: 9C7RWRM4+9F
Entry Name: 2 Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2 & 4 Kilgraston RD Incl Stable Block and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371562
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30527
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 2 Kilgraston Road
ID on this website: 200371562
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1867. 2-storey with basement, irregular-plan villa with Jacobean details. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Dividing band course;eaves cornice; raised quoins; 1st floor windows breaking eaves in pediments; chamfered reveals.
S ENTRANCE elevation: 4-bay. Steps up to round-arched roll-moulded doorway in 2nd bay; Gibbsian doorpiece with pierced stone strapwork over cornice; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; bipartite window at 1st floor above. Corniced 2-storey 4-light canted window in advanced gabled bay to outer left; pierced stone strapwork above cornice; kneelers to gable. Bipartite windows in 3rd and 4th bays; strapwork above cornice to 1st floor window in 4th bay.
N ELEVATION: 3-bay. Central recessed bay with mullioned and transomed stair window; pediment breaking eaves above. Advanced bays to outer left and right; single windows offset to left at ground and 1st floors.
W ELEVATION: 2-bay. Bipartite windows in advanced gabled bay to outer left; cornice to 1st floor window; kneelers to gable. Bipartite windows in bay to outer right; 1st floor window corniced. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; machicolated corbels to gablehead chimneybreasts and shouldered and corniced stacks to N and E; moulded octagonal cans to E stack; coped gables; stone finials; block skewputts; some original rainwater goods including hoppers.
INTERIOR: not seen 1991.
STABLE BLOCK: detached storey piend-roofed stable block to S of house. BOUNDARY WALLS: high coped boundary walls to Kilgraston Road and Hope Terrace.
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