Blackford Hill Lodge, 2 Charterhall Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1993. Lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Blackford Hill Lodge, 2 Charterhall Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tired-sentry-heron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1895. Single storey L-plan lodge with half-timbered gables and dragon corbels. Variegated pink sandstone, cyclopean rubble with ashlar dressings. Ashlar base course; plain barge boards with wooden tie rods and carved pendants; timber mullions and transoms; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.
E ELEVATION: projecting gabled bay to left with corbelled, canted timber oriel with egg and dart cornice, central light round-arched and keystone; half-timbered gablehead jettied out over elaborately carved dragan corbels. Canted ashlar entrance porth with tall parapet set obliquely in re-entrant angle to right.
N ELEVATION: gabled jamb detailed as E gable; tall corniced wallhead stack on return to right.
S ELEVATION: single windows to right and later public conveniences to left.
Multi-pane timber casements and top-hoppers to oriels, 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Red tiled roof with red ridge tiles; 1 wallhead stack (see above), pair of linked drum stacks to ridge.
INTERIOR: not seen 1992.
Detailed Attributes
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