Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

12 KIRK LOAN, CORSTORPHINE PUBLIC LIBRARY INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDSLB44764

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
11/11/1997
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 20087 72705
Coordinates
320087, 672705

Description

E J MacRae, 1927. Single storey with basement, 5-bay, T-plan public library. Squared and snecked lightly bull-faced sandstone; ashlar dressings. Base course; blocking course.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to advanced, gabled entrance porch; roll-moulded doorpiece; 2-leaf boarded timber door; illuminated fanlight; engraving above door reads 'Corstorphine Public Library'; Edinburgh City Arms above. Pair of 3-light windows to flanking recessed bays.

Predominantly fixed 6-pane timber windows. Grey slate roof; stone skews; central cupola. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: modern library fittings; original timber clock to NE.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDS: coped low boundary walls to site; gates to central entrance and to outer left; black railings; coped ashlar gatepiers with Art Nouveau style lamp standards surmounting.

Statement of Special Interest

E J MacRae was Edinburgh's City Architect from 1925-46 and is perhaps most famous for his police boxes of 1931-3. With its simple plan and materials, Corstorphine Public Library reflects the horizontal accents of Corstorphine Old Parish Church (see separate list description) and the simple village green opposite.

References

Bibliography

City Archives, Dean of Guild Records, 14/06/1935; Does not appear on Ordnance Survey map, 1914; appears on Ordnance Survey map, 1933; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH, p526.

About Listed Buildings

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