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Summary

Description

1910 with later alternations. 2-storey with attic, 3-bay house with Arts and Crafts Queen Anne details and with gig house set back to SW. Polished ashlar to NW elevation; bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone to SW; squared and snecked sandstone to NE and to rear.

NW (ST MARY?S PLACE) ELEVATION: tripartite doorway in segmental-arched opening to centre bay at ground strip-panelled door with keystone and pedimented lintel mult-pane fanlight and side lights; window at 1st floor above. Bipartite window to each floor of bay to left. Curvilinear gabled bay to right (cavetto moulded coping) with 2-storey canted window and window in gablehead above.

SE ELEVATION: glazed porch to centre at ground with bull-faced lined render base and half-glazed door to SW return angle; timber balustrade above. Tripartite and transomed window above at 1st floor. Bipartite window to each floor of bay to left. 2 windows at ground of bay to right and bipartite window at 1st floor above.

GIG HOUSE/GARAGE: later gabled gig house/garage (see Notes) to outer right with segmental-arched opening with 2-leaf boarded door; sandstone finial. Rendered and projecting to rear with boarded door with 2-pane fanlight above to left and bipartite window to right.

Timber sash and case windows with 6-pane upper sash and plate glass lower. Piended slate roof with slate hung box addition to SW and rendered addition to NE both at attic level. Half-piended slate roof to gig house with terracotta ridge tiles and finial to SE. 2 sandstone coped wallhead stacks to each side elevation part linked to roof by late dormer additions.

INTERIOR: mainly intact. Mosaic tiled floor to vestibule. Fine stained glass to vestibule door and partition, stair window and 1st floor bathroom. Good stylised plaserwork, simple design to hallway and stair, ivy and vine design to principal room at 1st floor; fine chimneypieces to principal rooms, with ceramic surround to that principal room at 1st floor. 2 chimneypieces removed. Strip-panelled doors with brass finger plates.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: bull-faced sandstone with battered coping, formerly with railings. Tall, slender pyramidal-headed gatepiers.

Statement of Special Interest

The house is very similar to those found on the South side of Edinburgh: it is not an exceptional example of this type although it is unusual within the context of Portobello and Joppa. Permission was sought from the Dean of Guild in 1911 to erect the garage.

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