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

Proposed Statutory Address: 17 and 19 St Thomas Road, including boundary wall, EdinburghLB30472

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
15/01/1992
Last Date Amended
28/08/2015
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 26055 71391
Coordinates
326055, 671391

Description

Initialled "AD", 1878. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with service wing attached; subdivided. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings. Base, and 2 dividing band courses; bracketted eaves; corbelled stack; painted timber-faced gables.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central gabled timber porch on ashlar base with glazed tripartite 2-leaf foor, and glazed panels flanking and on returns; round-arched plate glass fanlight; corbelled advanced panel with single window and small decorative timber gable above. Tripartite windows in bay to outer left at ground, 1st floor, and large gabled dormer. 2 single windows at ground floor to outer right; corbelled chimney breast with initialled and dated tablet above.

S ELEVATION: full-height 5-light canted window to outer left, timber at 1st floor, bracketted to square gabled jettied dormer with tripartite window. Tripartite windows at ground and 1st floors; tripartite gabled dormer.

N ELEVATION: single-pitched roof timber extension to outer right; service wing to outer left; central tripartite window, breaking eaves in gablehead.

E ELEVATION: blank gable wall to outer left; secondary entrance at centre of remaining block; bipartite window at 1st floor to left; single windows in remaining bays.

Plate glass sash and case windows with fixed upper panes. Grey slate piended roof; box dormer to E; 4 corniced stacks (3 wallhead, 1 gablehead); moulded octagonal cans; moulded eaves guttering.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street, rising to coped rubble wall to St Thomas Road; garages to E and N.

Statement of Special Interest

The clapboarded dormers and canted bay sit uneasily on the villa but have a distinctive American flavour.

Statutory address revised in 2015. Previously listed as '19 St Thomas Road'.

References

Bibliography

Post Office Directory (1879).

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.

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