Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

8 EDEN LANE, HARMONY HOUSE, WITH BOUNDARY WALLSLB27249

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
30/03/1993
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24859 71443
Coordinates
324859, 671443

Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey 5-bay house with later porch and rear projection, now subdivided. Cream sandstone, coursed and squared rubble with droved dressings to front, coursed rubble and rubble to rear and sides, rear projection pink rubble. Band course above ground floor.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: doorway at centre (original 5-pane fanlight obscured by porch) with pedimented Doric Timber porch with clock to pediment, 2-leaf panelled door; single window at 1st floor above. Bays to left and right of centre with single windows to ground and 1st floor. Advanced bay to outer left with half-piend roof and windwos to ground and 1st floor. Bay to outer right advanced with party wall and apex stack to S, single windows to ground and 1st floor.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled 2-storey projection with apex and outer wallhead stack, single window on return.

S ELEVATION: gabled with apex stack, secondary door to left; small modern lean-to addition in re-entrant angle with rear projection.

N ELEVATION: secondary door and single windows to ground and 1st floor to right; central wallhead stack.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof with lead flashings; 3 apex stacks, 2 wallhead stacks (see above).

INTERIOR: subdivided; vestibule and hall with stone flags, stone stair with cast-iron balustrade, plain cornices.

BOUNDARY WALLS: tall pink rubble wall to all sides with flat coping; arched over pedestrian doorway to N.

Statement of Special Interest

Smith dates the house as circa 1822, but it can only be identified with certainty on the 1852 OS map. However, the rear projection seems to incorporate earlier parts.

References

Bibliography

C J Smith, HISTORIC SOUTH EDINBURGH (Edinburgh, 1978), vol 1, p241.

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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