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Latitude: 55.9274 / 55°55'38"N
Longitude: -3.192 / 3°11'31"W
OS Eastings: 325615
OS Northings: 671121
OS Grid: NT256711
Mapcode National: GBR 8NQ.XP
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Y85T
Plus Code: 9C7RWRG5+X5
Entry Name: 23 Mortonhall Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 23 Mortonhall Road Including Boundary Walls and Steps
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371615
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30576
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 23 Mortonhall Road
ID on this website: 200371615
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1890. Single storey with attic and basement on falling ground, near rectangular-plan villa. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Dividing band course between basement and ground floor; bargeboards overhanging eaves.
N ENTRANCE elevation: 3-bay. Steps up to doorway in central bay; architraved surround; cornice; vesica window above; window to return to right. Full-height canted window across angle in 3rd bay; polygonal roof. Corniced tripartite window at ground in bay to outer left; corniced bipartite window in gablehead above; scrolled and finialled pediment. Small window between 2nd and 3rd bays.
W elevation: single window at principal floor in gabled bay to outer right.
E elevation: flat-roofed garage at ground to outer right. Irregularly disposed fenestration. Small-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced gablehead stack to W; corniced wallhead stacks to E; terracotta ridge coping; dormers to N and E.
INTERIOR: not seen 1991.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND STEPS: low coped boundary wall to street; high coped mutual and boundary walls; stone balustrades to steps down to rear garden.
The Dean of Guild warrant for the building of a new house for Thomas Leitch on the S side of Mortanhall Road in 1890 probably refers to No 23, as warrants and plans exist for all the remaining houses to the S. Possibly designed by Archibald Macpherson (see common masonry treatment with 8 Mortonhall Road by Macpherson).
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