The Drum, Gilmerton, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 April 1996. Lodgehouse.

The Drum, Gilmerton, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fallen-solder-scarlet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 April 1996
Type
Lodgehouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Later 19th century. Single storey and attic piecturesque gabled lodgehouse with overhanging bracketed eaves, set back from road behind railings at W entrance to The Drum. Squared and coursed stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings; base course, stone mullions, chamfered reveals, moulded band course, 1st floor slightly corbelled out.

SE ELEVATION: entrance in advanced, gabled bay, deep-set door with lugged raised surround, window to gable at 1st floor, bipartite with bracketed stone canopy to left at ground.

SW ELEVATION: to road, advanced gabled bay with bipartite to each floor, single bay at ground floor left.

Lower single storey wing at rear. Sash and case windows with 6-pane glazing pattern. Timber barge boards, brackets and kingpost detail to gables, grey slates, corniced ashlar ridge stack to N.

GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: 6 gatepiers linked by plinth with railings, rusticated ashlar with moulded base and cornice. Cast-iron gates, low curved ashlar plinth supporting railings with wrought- and cast-iron foliate panels, simple cast-iron railings to road linking final pair of gatepiers.

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