Lodge And Gate Piers, Merchiston Castle School, Colinton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Lodge.
Lodge And Gate Piers, Merchiston Castle School, Colinton Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ruined-frieze-falcon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dick Peddie and Walker Todd, 1928 Lodge and 1930 Gatepiers.
LODGE: single storey, square-plan lodge with broad eaves and swept roof. Harled with some ashlar dressings. Base course, eaves course, rendered banded quoins. 2 slate-hung piend-roofed dormers to attic; timber panelled door with lattice glazing in moulded surround to right of 3-bay entrance elevation; flat-roofed canted bay to left; timber sash and case windows; pyramidal slated roof with central diamond-set stack.
GATES AND GATEPIERS: ashlar-coped squared and snecked rock-faced quadrant screen walls. Square-plan corniced and platformed panelled ashlar gatepiers (later carriage lamps to inner piers); ashlar surrounds to pedestrian gateways. Wrought-iron gates to vehicular and pedestrian access; Greek key borders top and bottom; rose motifs to corners; painted and gilded crest (Merchiston Castle School) to centre of vehicular gates.
BOUNDARY WALL: coped random rubble boundary wall.
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