Entrance Gateway And Boundary Wall, Pavilions, Morton House, 19 Winton Loan, Edinburgh

The site includes an entrance gateway, boundary wall, and two pavilions, located at 19 Winton Loan, Edinburgh. The pavilions likely date from the early 18th century, the entrance gateway from the mid to late 18th century, and the boundary wall from the early 18th century onwards. All elements were restored by W Schomberg Scott in 1971.

The gateway stands at the entrance to a carriage drive immediately west of the main entrance to Morton House. Low flanking walls, topped with wrought iron railings, terminate at the pavilions. Coursed rubble walls then run to encompass the grounds of the house. The gatepiers are built from V-jointed sandstone ashlar, surmounted by sandstone urns with flame finials. The low flanking walls and pavilions are harled with sandstone ashlar dressings, and the pavilions have ogee roofs. The pavilions, gateway, and intervening walls form a symmetrical arrangement aligned with the house.

The pavilions are two-storey structures, square in plan, with reversed plans (openings slightly altered). They are constructed from harled sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, including margins and moulded eaves cornices. They have grey slate ogee roofs with lead obelisk finials; the finial on the south pavilion was reproduced in 1971 after re-roofing. The north pavilion has a central entrance on its north elevation with a late 20th century boarded timber door, and a single window with an ashlar surround to its south elevation. The south pavilion also has a central entrance with an ashlar surround and a boarded timber door; it features a 19th century loft door with a stugged and droved ashlar surround and a two-leaf boarded timber door above, as well as a ground floor window with fixed multi-pane glazing and a smaller inserted window. All upper-storey windows on the north and west elevations are boarded. The east elevation of the south pavilion is blank. The interiors were not inspected in 1998.

The entrance gateway features a pair of V-jointed sandstone ashlar gatepiers, each with a cornice having a moulded band course above and flat coping surmounted by a carved stone urn with a flame finial (the finial on the south pier has been replaced). Each gatepier has a lower-height engaged gate stanchion with moulded scroll decoration on its inner face. A harled buttress, possibly slightly earlier, has ashlar margins at the arrises and undulating coping to the east. Low harled flanking walls with ashlar coping and wrought-iron railings (replaced in 1971 based on those at Traquair House) terminate at the pavilions.

The boundary wall, constructed of rubble with rubble coping, extends north and south from the outer sides of the entrance pavilions, enclosing the grounds of the house in a Z-plan. There are three gateways to the south and southwest. A lower section of rubble wall with ashlar coping runs east of the house, flanked by ashlar piers surmounted by obelisks (likely early 18th-century and contemporary with the pavilions), forming a symmetrical composition at the rear of the house. Prospect views extend along a broad avenue from the house over the lower section of the wall.