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

184 NEWHAVEN ROAD, RAMSAY HOUSE, INCLUDING COACH HOUSE, GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLLB29397

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25704 76638
Coordinates
325704, 676638

Description

Circa 1831. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical neo-Greek house set back from road; mirror image to No 186. Polished ashlar facade; architraved openings; advanced central bay; recessed ashlar quoins. Continuous base and string course; blocking course raised at centre. Corniced first floor windows; pedimented central window. Ionic doorcase at ground.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps up to central doorcase; fluted Ionic columns to left and right; blank architrave, frieze and cornice above. Timber panelled door; replacement plate glass fanlight. Pedimented single window with flanking decorative consoles to central bay at 1st floor. Single windows to both floors in bays to outer left and right. Decorative cast-iron window guards to 1st floor windows.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble sandstone; irregularly disposed single openings. Stone stair from ground floor to basement.

4-pane timber sash and case windows in all bays to W elevation. Timber sash and case windows to rear. Piended grey slate roof; ashlar wallhead stacks with linked octagonal flues. Single-storey sandstone segmental arches flank main block at first floor (left pend blocked).

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

COACH HOUSE: random rubble single storey with hay loft set back from main house (SW); mirrors that in adjacent No 186. Long and short rubble quoins; single opening in attic.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble wall to Newhaven Road. Ashlar gatepiers flank driveway; projecting cornices and base course; recessed panels; square caps; ironwork in place. Coped random rubble wall to N and S boundaries. Extensive garden to rear.

Statement of Special Interest

No 184 and the adjacent No 186 were built and lived in by the Schultz brothers (both whaling captains) whose wish it was that the two buildings be exactly the same. Once part of the Williamfield Estate (subsequently developed as the Dudley Estate). The 1855 Ordnance Survey map refers to both houses as forming "Ramsay Place".

References

Bibliography

Does not appear on Wood?s map, 1826; appears on Ordnance Survey map, 1855 and PO Directory map, 1884; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p611; C McKean EDINBURGH; AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p216.

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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