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

4 AND 4A MERCHISTON PARKLB27189

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
03/02/1993
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24373 72079
Coordinates
324373, 672079

Description

Circa 1860. 2-storey 3-bay asymmetrical subdivided villa with Jacobean details. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above ground floor; chamfered reveals.

NE (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled central bay, rounded arrises to ground floor corbelled to square at 1st floor, roll-moulded depressed-arch doorway with boarded door with decorative cast-iron hinges, small panel with entwined letters av above, small windows on returns; at 1st floor shallow ashlar oriel over off-set corbels with pediment of carved strapwork, arrowslit windows on returns; finialled skewputts and gable. Broad gabled bay to right with bipartite window at ground floor with string course stepping over as hoodmould, small blank shield over central light; single window at 1st floor; narrow window in gablehead. Recessed bay to left with 2 single windows at ground floor; 1st floor window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead. Recessed single storey side wing to outer right.

SE ELEVATION: 2-bay; adanced gabled bay to right with 2 wallhead stacks flanking apex as kneelers, large rubble-built modern forestair and screen wall as access to secondary entrance at 1st floor, small window in gablehead. Gable bay to left with stacks as above, arrowslit window in gablehead. Stone-built gabled detached garage to SE.

NW ELEVATION: flat-roofed side wing at ground floor; cenral shouldered wallhead stack (rebuilt).

Timber sash and case windows, mostly with plate glass glazing, some 4-pane windows; slate roof with lead flashings; 5 wallhead stacks (see above), 3 decorative barleysugar cans; coped ashlar skews and corbelled skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble wall to rear and sides with semi-circular coping, low wall to front with flat coping, later gatepiers, gate and railings.

References

Bibliography

1861 Lancefield survey map.

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.

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