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Latitude: 55.9279 / 55°55'40"N
Longitude: -3.1902 / 3°11'24"W
OS Eastings: 325727
OS Northings: 671180
OS Grid: NT257711
Mapcode National: GBR 8PQ.8H
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Z80D
Plus Code: 9C7RWRH5+5W
Entry Name: 8B Mortonhall Road And Gatepiers, 8, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 8 and 8B Mortonhall Road Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371620
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30581
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 8, 8b Mortonhall Road And Gatepiers
ID on this website: 200371620
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Archibald Macpherson, 1890. 2-storey, 3-bay irregular-plan villa. Squared and snecked pale sandstone with polished dressings. Roll-moulded window surrounds; cornices to ground floor windows; overhanging swept eaves. S ENTRANCE elevation: 3-bay with entrance porches recessed to outer left and right. Roll-moulded depressed-arched doorway in recessed porch to outer left; cornice with blind ashlar balustrade above; lean-to conservatory at 1st floor; curvilinear gable with inset oculus behind; panelled door; divided fanlight. Recessed porch to outer right; panelled door; glazed upper panels; bipartite window breaking eaves above. Single storey cante dwindow in central bay; stone balustrade enclosing balcony to 1st floor bipartite window above. Single windows in flanking bays.
N rear elevation: 3-bay with service wings to outer left and right. Tripartite windows at ground in centre and outer right bays; relieving arches; bipartite windows at 1st floor. Single windows in 1st bay.
E AND W elevations: single windows.
Plate glass sash and case windows at ground; small-pane and lying-pane sash and case windows at 1st floor. Grey slate piended roof; gabled dormer to S; piend-roofed dormer to N, corniced ridge stack; 2 linked corniced wallhead stacks to E.
INTERIORS: not seen 1991.
GATEPIERS and BOUNDARY WALLS: corniced ashlar gatepiers to street; low saddleback wall to street; high coped mutual walls.
Designed for Duncan Stewart and built on land feued from Colonel Trotter of Mortonhall.
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