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14 Church Hill, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9322 / 55°55'56"N

Longitude: -3.2057 / 3°12'20"W

OS Eastings: 324772

OS Northings: 671675

OS Grid: NT247716

Mapcode National: GBR 8LN.5Y

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Q5P3

Plus Code: 9C7RWQJV+VP

Entry Name: 14 Church Hill, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 14, 14B, C, D, E, Church Hill

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364040

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27079

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364040

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Style of David Cousin, circa 1860. 2-storey 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical now subdivided villa, stables and outhouses to E, basement to rear. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar front with polished dressings, squared and snecked rubble to rear and sides with stugged dressings. Base course; architraved windows with bracketted cills and cornices; banded eaves course.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: entrance door at centre with disc motif to pilasters and consoled cornice, panlled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey with raised basement; 4-bay; single windows; single storey with raised basement flat-roofed extension to right with single windows and secondary door.

W ELEVATION: 2-storey lean-to timber conservatory to basement to right; single central window at 1st floor; 2 wallhead stacks.

E ELEVATION: modern forestair to secondary door inserted in former tall round-arched stair window; 2 blocked up windows to right; 2 wallhead stacks.

STABLES AND OUTHOUSE: 2-storey, forming courtyard to E; square-plan with piend roofs, squared and snecked rubble with stugged ashlar front to N elevation (converted to housing 1926).

Timber sash and case windows, mostly 2-pane upper sashes and 4-pane lower sashes, some 12-pane windows to rear. Slate piend roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides, tall wall with flat coping to front, square coped gatepiers (mostly shortened and moved).

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