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Summary

Description

Later 19th century. 2 storey and attic, 3 bay, rectangular plan villa. Tooled coursed sandstone with polished dressings; long and short droved quoins. Base course; droved dividing band courses; eaves course.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; grey sandstone; principal floor reached by central infilled platt; central pilastered doorpiece, with carved consoles supporting projecting hoodmould; matching windows to flanking bays; bipartite windows to left and right bays of basement; timber boarded door to right return of infilled platt; regular fenestration to 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: squared and snecked sandstone; windows to centre of principal and 1st floors; 2 leaf boarded timber door to outer right of basement.

NE ELEVATION: not seen 1997.

NW ELEVATION: squared and snecked sandstone; window to centre of principal floor and 1st floor; window to left of 1st floor.

RAILINGS AND PIERS: barley sugar iron railings run along principal elevation of villa curving to door; 4 coped sandstone piers symmetrically placed.

Primarily 4 pane timber sash and case windows; replaced 2 pane timber sash and case windows to basement, left of principal floor (SW elevation) and principal floor of NW elevation. Piended slate roof with lead ridges; cast iron rainwater goods; pairs of polished coped wallhead stacks to NW and SE.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Special Interest

Grouped with Nos 25, 39, 47/49. Gorebridge was founded by the Dewars of Vogrie in the 1800's. It provided accommodation for the workers at Stobs Mill gunpowder factory (house still remains, see separate listing) which was established in 1793, and was the earliest gunpowder works in Scotland. As the "Powdermill Brae" suggests this was probably the main area of workers accommodation. However these grander villas at the top of the hill are more likely to have emerged due to the prosperity which followed the coming of the railway in the 1840's.

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