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Latitude: 55.8924 / 55°53'32"N
Longitude: -3.2155 / 3°12'55"W
OS Eastings: 324077
OS Northings: 667251
OS Grid: NT240672
Mapcode National: GBR 50Z9.NL
Mapcode Global: WH6SZ.L505
Plus Code: 9C7RVQRM+XQ
Entry Name: 5 Swanston Village, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 and 6 Swanston Village
Listing Date: 3 December 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392865
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45844
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392865
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Colinton/Fairmilehead
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Cira 1850, altered/extended earlier 20th century. Terrace comprising pair of single storey and attic, double-fronted farmworkers' cottages. Coursed stugged sandstone, droved at arrises and with droved ashlar dressings and harled brick rear/S extensions. Architraved surrounds to openings: those to principal/N elevation have semicircular panels at head. Projecting eaves band. Coped gables.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central entrance with boarded timber door and 2-pane rectangular fanlight to each cottage; flanking windows; additional small window to right of No 5.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: short single storey flat-roofed extension to each cottage; each with 2 windows; entrance to right return; earlier lean-to section to right of that to No 5; shared 4-light boxed dormer window (inserted 1933) with timber mullions to centre between cottages.
W ELEVATION: small lean-to with coped skews.
E ELEVATION: entrance to lean-to with small window to right.
Mainly 8 and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roofs to main body of terrace and to lean-to sections; flat leaded roofs to rear/S extensions. 2 corniced gablehead stacks; one to centre of ridge; round and decorative octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIORS: not inspected (1997).
B group with Nos 1-2, 3-4 and 7-8 Swanston village as largely intact group of mid 19th century farm estate workers' cottages (for Mortonhall Estate). They are finely constructed and symmetrically grouped around a central green.
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