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Leuchold, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Almond, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9937 / 55°59'37"N

Longitude: -3.3634 / 3°21'48"W

OS Eastings: 315051

OS Northings: 678696

OS Grid: NT150786

Mapcode National: GBR 22.VD9W

Mapcode Global: WH6SB.9MM1

Plus Code: 9C7RXJVP+FJ

Entry Name: Leuchold, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Dalmeny House, Leuchold, Including Boundary Wall and Outbuildings

Listing Date: 26 March 1998

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392322

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45438

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Dalmeny House, Leuchold

ID on this website: 200392322

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Almond

Traditional County: West Lothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

Probably late 18th century, with series of later 19th century additions. Original of harled rubble with ashlar dressings, additions of stugged, squared and snecked sandstone, with advanced polished and droved dressings. Base course.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: ground floor spanned by later single storey stone passageway with gabled porch at centre; panelled timber door with fanlight, flanked by windows to outer bays. Regular fenestration to bays at 1st floor, grouped towards centre. Later gabled wing to E comprising large tripartite window at ground, with window aligned above. Single storey service wing advanced to left, with double gable, facing S; tripartite window to right with tooled panel in gable; window and door to left..

E ELEVATION: advanced gable at right, with window to outer left at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay to original house, at centre, window at centre to ground, flanked by smaller window at right, with window aligned above, and nepus gable window, breaking eaves, aligned above to attic. Window in bay to right with window aligned above, and piend-roofed dormer window to attic. Large window to bay at left with window above, flanked by smaller window to right, with piend-roofed dormer window to attic. Wing to E comprising French window at ground to N, with steps and modern railing; window hugging eaves above. 2 windows to single storey rubble wing to W, with 2-storey gable to outer right.

W ELEVATION: window at 1st floor, to left.

Timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar and harled ashlar gablehead stacks, coped with circular cans. Skews and bracket skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALL: tall, random rubble boundary wall, with semicircular coping, to E.

OUTBUILDINGS: variety of stugged, squared and snecked sandstone and rubble outbuildings to W, including 2-storey service wing, harled to W, with timber-mullioned bipartite windows to attic; single storey wing, with 2 doors and fenestration facing N; piend-roofed, cement-rendered garage, with boarded folding timber doors.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Dalmeny House, including Barnbougle Castle, Barnbougle Gate Lodge, Dalmeny House Boundary Wall, Chapel Gate Lodge, East Craigie Farmhouse, East Craigie Gate Lodge, Edinburgh Gate Lodge, Dalmeny House Gardener's Cottage, Dalmeny House Home Farm, Dalmeny House Home Farm Laundry, Leuchold Gate Lodge, Longcraig Gate Lodge, 1, 2, 3 and 4 Long Green, Newhalls Gate Lodge, Dalmeny House Stable Block and Dalmeny House Walled Garden (see separate listings).

Leuchold has previously been used as the Dalmeny estate factor's house.

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