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Summary

Description

Robert Wilson, 1890. Built as Industrial Home for Fallen Women. Now subdivided into houses. Queen Anne, main block two-storey and attic with range of two single storey former industrial buildings, now in residential use, some later in brick extending west along Stanedykehead at rear. Bull-faced squared and snecked red sandstone with cream polished ashlar dressings. Tall timber sash and case windows with 20-pane glazing pattern, roll-moulded surrounds to main elevation and corniced at ground. Grey slates, terracotta ridge tiles with finials to piended main block. Ashlar coped skews, tall, corniced ashlar stacks. EAST ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled central bay, tripartite, round-headed doorway at ground floor with moulded surround and string mould over, nine panelled door with small-paned fanlight above. Windows flanking at ground floor, three windows at first floor, central with round-arched pediment. Key-blocked bull's-eye to attic. Flanked by lower and narrower two-bay gables, two windows to each floor, with blank corniced sculpture panel to attic. Outer single bays with window at ground, first floor window breaking eaves in pedimented dormer. NORTH and SOUTH ELEVATIONS: advanced gabled bays; North with two windows at ground, two narrow windows at first floor, louvred bull's-eye windows to attic. South gable has windows in re-entrant angle at ground and first floors. Ashlar coped rubble wall to main road. Long single storey range to north extending from main block with enlarged openings and veluxes to roof. Linked by stone wall to pyramidal capped ashlar GATEPIERS to courtyard. Courtyard behind: two storey brick piended brick addition to main block, windows replaced in uPVC. Stone single storey cottage to north. CARRIAGE-HOUSE: now in residential use, single storey and attic, segmentally arched opening to east now in use as garage with modern garage door. Pedimented dormerheads to attic openings. 12-pane sash and case windows, slated piended roof. BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls to east with saddleback ashlar coping. GATEPIERS: to rear courtyard, ashlar with corniced ashlar caps.

Statement of Special Interest

Built on site of the first lunatic asylum in Scotland and formerly known as Stanedykehead, in 1850 it became the Edinburgh Industrial Home for Fallen Women and functioned for many years as a laundry. It was rebuilt in 1891, and after 1918 it was converted into flats.

Number 3b Stanedykehead is a modern detached building designed in a traditional style reflecting the adjacent listed buildings and is not included in the listing.

Minor update to listed building record in 2023.

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