8 Sciennes Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
8 Sciennes Gardens, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- small-spandrel-swallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1992
- Type
- Villa
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1862. 2-storey, 3- and 5-bay tripple villa. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; long and short chamfered quoins; overhanging timber eaves; 1st floor windows breaking eaves in gabled dormerheads; chamfered reveals with basket-arched lintels.
N ELEVATION: 5-bay mirrored about centre. Central chamfered doorway with cornice and stylized pediment; panelled door; 2-light fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Single windows to each floor in 2nd and 4th bays. Advanced gabled outer bays with corniced canted windows at ground and tripartite windows at 1st floor; decorative blank shields set in gableheads.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: 3-bay mirrored about centre. Central doorway detailed as above; panelled door (glazed upper panels to W); 2-light fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Single windows to each floor in outer bays.
8-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate gabled roof; corniced gablehead and mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans; scrolled skewputts; stone corbels to timber eaves of gablets.
INTERIORS: not seen 1990.
Low coped rubble boundary wall; brick mutual walls.
Detailed Attributes
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