Holyrood Free Church And School, Horse Wynd, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Gatehouse.

Holyrood Free Church And School, Horse Wynd, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
proud-oriel-umber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Gatehouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Robert Matheson, 1861. Monumental, double-height, symmetrical, corbelled and crowstepped Scots Renaissance gatehouse with depressed gothic arch pend and flanking projecting battlemented round towers to E with finialled conical roofs. Central finialled pedimented dormer breaks eaves. Single storey wings to right and left. That to right incorporating 17th century former garden entrance with moulded architrave, decorative carved frieze and broken pediment surmounted by thistle. Squared and snecked sandstone, rubble to W. Base course. Panels to towers with carved Coats of Arms. Pair of crowstepped gable dormerheads to W.

Wings with tripartite windows with stone mullions and some cross-slit openings. Parapet to W.

Gatehouse with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, single storey wings with single-pane timber sash and case windows all with horns. Grey slates. Skews and moulded skewputts. Coped gable stacks.

INTERIOR: (seen 2007). Comprehensively modernised.

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