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Latitude: 55.8858 / 55°53'8"N
Longitude: -3.3403 / 3°20'24"W
OS Eastings: 316262
OS Northings: 666659
OS Grid: NT162666
Mapcode National: GBR 503C.MY
Mapcode Global: WH6SX.NBL7
Plus Code: 9C7RVMP5+8V
Entry Name: Lodge, Larch Grove, Johnsburn Road, Balerno, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 8 Bridge Road (Former Lodge to Larch Grove) with Boundary Walls, Railings and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 October 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363555
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26765
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363555
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Lodge
Late 19th/early 20th century. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan lodge to Larch Grove. White-painted harl with red sandstone dressings; base course; undressed margins to windows. Advanced eaves with exposed rafters.
S ELEVATION: 3-bays. Timber gabled porch at centre, tripartite window facing S, half-glazed door at right return; flanking gabled windows breaking eaves.
N ELEVATION: modern, 2-bay flat-roofed scullery addition to outer left; window to outer right.
E & W ELEVATIONS: gabled window breaking eaves at centre.
12-pane sash and case windows. Graded grey slate piended roof, terracotta ridge tiles with 1 curling, scrolled finial remaining, that to right missing; coped, broad, red sandstone ridge stack.
GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: stugged red sandstone piers with sunk-chamfer arrises; ashlar cornice and obelisk cap. Low, curving, red sandstone plinth walls with decorative cast iron railings (some Jacobean strapwork detail in cast-iron) link main gates with outer blocky piers. Outer piers, red sandstone with pyramidal caps. Tall rubble boundary wall with semicircular coping runs N along Bridge Road.
The lodge is shown on the 2nd edition map as the lodge to Larch Grove. It is listed for group value and in consideration of the roofscape and fine gateway. Larch Grove is listed as is the S lodge of Larch Grove.
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