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St Thomas' Schools And Asylum, 5 Mill Lane, Leith, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Leith, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9747 / 55°58'28"N

Longitude: -3.1764 / 3°10'35"W

OS Eastings: 326678

OS Northings: 676367

OS Grid: NT266763

Mapcode National: GBR 8S5.2Q

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.53P2

Plus Code: 9C7RXRFF+VC

Entry Name: St Thomas' Schools And Asylum, 5 Mill Lane, Leith, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 4, 5, 6A, 6B Mill Lane with Gatepiers and Railings, Edinburgh

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 365154

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27819

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200365154

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

John Henderson, 1840. 2-storey, L-shaped block forming open courtyard with former St Thomas parish church and manse (listed separately), Jacobean details, part-refurbished (1992). Cream sandstone, droved ashlar with polished dressings, squared and snecked rubble to rear. Base course; continuous hoodmoulds to ground and 2nd floor; chamfered arrises; moulded skews; eaves line raised over each bay into lugged gables with blind round-arched windows and gabled dormerheads with blind roundels; grooved and corniced stacks.

S ELEVATION: 10-bay with regular fenestration; 2nd, 6th and 10th bay slightly advanced with shaped gables; doorways to 6th and 10th.

W BLOCK: 3-bay front elevation with deeply moulded doorway at centre accessed by steps, bipartite windows with timber mullions flanking; single windows at 1st floor; shaped gable with blank panel over centre bay. Return elevation to courtyard 4-bay with single windows and gables with gablehead stacks to outer bays. Return elevation to W as above with crenellations and gablehead stack to centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: reconstructed and extended in recent conversion.

Timber sash and case windows, W block mostly plate glass glazing, hospital block with modern 12-pane windows. Slate roofs; 5 gablehead stacks, mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: coped gatepiers and ornamental iron arrowhead railings.

Statement of Interest

B group with former St Thomas Church, now Guru Nanak Gurdawara Singh Sabha Sikh Temple (listed separately). Founded by Sir John Gladstone of Fasque as a memorial to his family. It consisted of the church, manse, schoolhouse and hospital for ten female incurables.

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