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Church, 18 West Mayfield, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9332 / 55°55'59"N

Longitude: -3.1767 / 3°10'35"W

OS Eastings: 326585

OS Northings: 671746

OS Grid: NT265717

Mapcode National: GBR 8SN.1M

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.54KD

Plus Code: 9C7RWRMF+78

Entry Name: Church, 18 West Mayfield, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 18 West Mayfield, Former Manse to Mayfield Salisbury Church, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepier and Pedestrian Gate

Listing Date: 25 March 1997

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390975

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44439

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 18 West Mayfield, Church

ID on this website: 200390975

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Manse

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Description

Hippolyte J Blanc, 1876 with modern alterations. 2 storey and basement, 3 bay asymmetrical Gothic style house with single storey wing adjoining to E. Squared and snecked cream rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course; decorative bargeboards; deeply overhanging eaves.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central pointed arched doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single round arched window to 1st floor above; single window to ground floor outer left set in pointed arched panel with quatrefoil motif; single window to 1st floor above with pediment breaking eaves. Advanced, gabled bay to outer right; trefoil headed tripartite window at ground; shouldered arched tripartite window to 1st floor above; carved quatrefoil roundel and pointed arch to gablehead. Single storey wing adjoining house to E with shouldered arched bipartite window.

S ELEVATION: modern extension to basement supporting balcony to ground floor above; 3 light canted window to ground floor outer left; bipartite window to 1st floor above; tripartite windows to both floors in bay to outer right.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; tall wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIER AND PEDESTRIAN GATE: low coped boundary wall to street; high rubble mutual wall to E terminating in panelled gatepier. Pedestrian gate adjoining house to E.

Statement of Interest

The house, now used for a variety of church purposes, is linked to the Church itself by a basement passage.

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