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Latitude: 55.9292 / 55°55'45"N
Longitude: -3.1749 / 3°10'29"W
OS Eastings: 326688
OS Northings: 671309
OS Grid: NT266713
Mapcode National: GBR 8SQ.D0
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.67DD
Plus Code: 9C7RWRHG+M2
Entry Name: Tarquin House, 18 West Saville Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 18 West Savile Road, Tarquin House, Including Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 25 March 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390978
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44442
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 18 West Saville Road, Tarquin House
ID on this website: 200390978
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
Later 19th century. 2-storey asymmetrical 3-bay house with circular entrance tower. Squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornice; quoins; architraved windows; dividing band course and eaves course to tower.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: engaged tower to central bay, in re-entrant angle; panelled timber door with shouldered plate glass fanlight leads to porch to ground of tower; narrow shouldered single windows flanking; 3 narrow round-arched single windows to 1st floor above; advanced gabled bay to right; advanced mullioned bipartite window to ground, with 4-centred window heads; shouldered bipartite window with capital to mullion to 1st floor above; moulded ashlar plaque to gable above; bipartite window to ground of bay to left; shouldered single window to 1st floor above, breaking eaves in hood-mould.
NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Advanced gabled bay to right; canted mullioned 3-light window to ground, with 4-centred window heads; bipartite shouldered window with mullions to 1st floor above; single windows to ground and 1st floors of bay to left, the latter breaking eaves; single window to flat-roofed wing to left.
2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof, piended hoods to 1st floor windows to left-hand bays of each elevation; conical grey slate roof to turret. Swept metal canopies to advanced window bays to ground; iron finials; wrought-iron window guard to 1st floor of SE elevation. Recessed gabled garage to E with sandstone lintel; 2-leaf timber doors with 3 glass panels to each leaf; grey slate roof.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped rubble boundary walls to street. Original cast-iron railings to Mayfield Road. Original iron gateposts with later wrought-iron gate to West Savile Road.
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