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13 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.935 / 55°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.206 / 3°12'21"W

OS Eastings: 324753

OS Northings: 671981

OS Grid: NT247719

Mapcode National: GBR 8LM.2Y

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.Q3H0

Plus Code: 9C7RWQMV+XH

Entry Name: 13 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 13 Greenhill Gardens with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 12 December 1974

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364493

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27352

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364493

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1850. Small single storey and attic 3-bay cottage-style villa with modern rear extension, windows enlarged to bipartite. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with droved and polished ashlar dressings and angle strips. Incised diamond-pattern motif to band course above ground floor continuing on bargeboards of front elevation; overhanging eaves; ashlar mullions.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced broad gabled bay to left with bipartite windows to ground floor and gablehead. Entrance door to centre with egg and dart cornice and rectangular 3-pane fanlight, black and white marble vestibule and inner door with etched glass to upper panel and sidelights. Bipartite window to right bay.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bay to left with large multi-pane patio door and bipartite window in gablehead; single storey flat-roofed rendered extension with bipartite window to centre bay; bipartite window to left bay.

S ELEVATION: 2 small windows to centre bay with central wallhead stack. N ELEVATION: M-gabled with small gablehead stacks.

Multi-pane timber casement windows. Slate roof, metal flashings; 3 stacks (see above); small square timber cupola over hall.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: tall boundary wall to rear and side with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, 2 tall tapering gatepiers with curved coping and frieze of incised diamond-pattern motif; cast-iron railings and gates with flower motifs.

Statement of Interest

Listed despite window enlargement for interest of diamond-pattern theme.

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