Swanston Water House, Swanston Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Water house.

Swanston Water House, Swanston Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
solitary-terrace-stoat
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Water house
OS grid reference
NT 237 675
Coordinates
55.89463, -3.22012
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Swanston Water House, dated 1761, is a single-storey, single-bay rectangular building that was constructed around a water gauge. It is located to the southeast of Swanston Cottage on Swanston Road in Edinburgh. The exterior features diagonally droved sandstone ashlar, a moulded ashlar eaves cornice, and coped gables, topped with a stone flagged roof.

On the east gable end, there is a central entrance with a boarded timber door, above which is a lintel inscribed with 'EDINBURGH GEORGIUS LIND Praefaectus Anno MDCCLXI'. The other elevations are blind and the building adjoins a late 19th-century filter house to the west.

Inside, most of the floor area is taken up by a stone gauging tank, and the ceiling is barrel-vaulted.

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