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Brown Acre, Dundas Castle

A Category B Listed Building in Almond, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9772 / 55°58'37"N

Longitude: -3.4249 / 3°25'29"W

OS Eastings: 311177

OS Northings: 676938

OS Grid: NT111769

Mapcode National: GBR 1Z.WJHL

Mapcode Global: WH6SH.C1B4

Plus Code: 9C7RXHGG+V2

Entry Name: Brown Acre, Dundas Castle

Listing Name: Dundas Castle, Brown Acre, Lilac Cottage, Rose Cottage and Dundas Mains, Including Railings, Gates and Wall

Listing Date: 26 March 1998

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392367

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45472

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundas Castle, Brown Acre

ID on this website: 200392367

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Almond

Traditional County: West Lothian

Tagged with: Semi-detached house

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Description

Circa 1910. Single storey and attic 4-bay symmetrical group of 4 semi-detached houses with mock Tudor details. Harled walls with applied half-timber decoration in gableheads.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-bay, with roof swept down to single storey over 2 centre bays creating porches, set between 2 advanced gables of outer bays. Small-pane timber windows advanced to centre with panelled and glazed timber doors on returns, flanking bays recessed at ground; 2-storey gabled outer bays with regular fenestration. Gabled dormers to centre bays.

E ELEVATION: 2-bay asymmetrical elevation comprising window at ground in bay to left, entrance door with tiled timber canopy porch in bay to right; window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead with half-timbered dormerhead centred at 1st floor centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; centre 3 bays advanced, with pair of narrow windows at ground in centre bay, doors and windows in flanking bays; wallhead dormers centred above. Wide gabled bays to outer left and right; gabled single storey wing advanced in left bay.

Mullioned timber casements; red clay tile roofs to principal pitches and dormers; overhanging timber eaves with exposed rafter ends and timber barge boards; cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative barge boards centred over inner bays of principal elevation. Harled 8-flue ridge stacks with deep moulded and corniced harled copes and predominantly red circular cans.

RAILINGS, GATES AND WALL: hooped iron railings with ball-finialled stanchions and matching gates enclosing gardens to S and E. Random rubble wall with saddleback copes to E.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Dundas Castle, including Blue Acre, Boat House, Castleloch, Castle Grove, Dovecot, Dundas Castle Keep, Dundas Loch Bridge, Fountain Sundial, Ice House, North Lodge, South Lodge and Walled Garden ( see separate listings).

Well detailed and constructed buildings of this style are comparatively rare in Scotland. These houses are reminiscent of works in Edinburgh and East Lothian by Dunn and Findlay.

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