Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

1 CHURCH HILL, WESTGATE, WITH BOUNDARY WALLSLB27006

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24589 71705
Coordinates
324589, 671705

Description

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.

Statement of Special Interest

Thomas Chalmers, one of the leaders of the Disruption of 1843, lived and died here 31 May 1847.

References

Bibliography

NMRS list of Henderson's plans in possession of Mrs E S Phillips. Gifford et al., EDINBURGH (1984), p622. C J Smith, MORNINGSIDE (Edinburgh, 1992), pp11.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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