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Latitude: 55.9325 / 55°55'56"N
Longitude: -3.2086 / 3°12'30"W
OS Eastings: 324589
OS Northings: 671705
OS Grid: NT245717
Mapcode National: GBR 8KN.KV
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.P49X
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJR+XH
Entry Name: Churchill House, 1 Church Hill, Morningside, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 Church Hill, Westgate, with Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363937
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27006
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363937
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
John Henderson, 1842. 2-storey and attic 3-bay symmetrical villa with basement and 2-storey service block to rear. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar front with droved dressings, squared and coursed rubble with stugged dressings to sides, service block with squared and snecked rubble. Base course, banded string course above ground floor; projecting band eaves course; corniced windows at ground floor.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: slightly projecting pedimented bay at centre, architraved doorway with consoled cornice, panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight; single corniced window at 1st floor. Outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor, glazed rectangular dormer to left bay. Secondary single storey ashlar entrance gateway, consoled pediment fronting glazed-in forestair to outer right.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey square-plan extension to left; secondary door to centre bay; single windows to remaining bays.
W ELEVATION: 2-bay; projecting bay to right with single windows to ground and 1st floor in advanced panel, single storey modern conservatory at ground floor; single windows to left bay, glazed rectangular dormer. E ELEVATION: 2-bay; projecting bay to left with enclosed half-glazed rubble forestair, single window at 1st floor, wallhead stack; single windows to right bay, glazed rectangular dormer. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piend and platform slate roof, metal flashings; 1 wallhead stack (see above), 2 coped central stacks, octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
BOUNDARY WALLS: tall rubble wall to all sides with semi-circular coping, coped gatepiers and cast-iron pedestrian gate.
Thomas Chalmers, one of the leaders of the Disruption of 1843, lived and died here 31 May 1847.
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