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 WEST COATES, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND OBELISKLB29917

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
29/04/1977
Supplementary Information Updated
18/09/2002
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 23411 73252
Coordinates
323411, 673252

Description

Mid 19th century. Large 2-storey and attic, 4-bay baronial villa with crowstepped gables. Coursed, polished sandstone ashlar. String course and cill course between ground and 1st floors of canted bay; corbelled hood-mould and decorative cill course to narrow gablehead lights.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: gabled 2-storey bay at outer left recessed, window to each floor; penultimate bay to left advanced with recessed, shouldered doorpiece at ground, comprising panelled timber door with large, shouldered rectangular fanlight; panelled piers adjoining corniced walls flank ashlar steps leading to ground floor entrance; upper stories corbelled out; window to 1st floor; light to gable; window to right of doorpiece at ground; canted bay at right, with window to each face at both floors; attic storey corbelled to square with gablehead light. Modern, coped, flat-roofed, single storey addition at left, with cill course to 6-pane rectangular plate glass glazing.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: tripartite window at ground; pierced brackets support stone balcony to corniced tripartite window at 1st floor above.

2- and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; coped, shouldered, coursed sandstone ashlar stack to E side, with tall cylindrical cans; coped stack at rear with cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND OBELISK: low, coursed sandstone ashlar boundary walls to street, with obelisk on square-plan pedestal set to right; saddleback coping to mutual rubble boundary wall at E.

Statement of Special Interest

Built under Alexander Black, who died in 1858, as part of the Heriot Trust feus. The obelisk gatepiers continue the theme set by Donaldson's Hospital (see separate list description).

References

Bibliography

J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker, EDINBURGH (Buildings of Scotland series), (1984), p 382.

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.

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