Torwood, 33 Woodhall Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Suburban villa. 2 related planning applications.
Torwood, 33 Woodhall Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lost-footing-snow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Suburban villa
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Attributed to RM Cameron, circa 1900 with additions 1911 and 1915 by RM Cameron. Single-storey and attic Arts and Crafts suburban villa with Scottish features and asymmetrical plan, V-shaped to rear. Red tiled roof, stair turret and crow-stepped dormer to NW, turret and dormers to SE. White-painted render to first floor; snecked rubble with stugged sandstone and polished ashlar dressings to ground. Band course. Irregularly fenestrated.
NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door to right of centre; roll moulded surround; bracketed, corniced timber canopy supported from above with decorative wrought-iron strut; TORWOOD in black lettering between lintel and canopy. Advanced, piend-roof stair tower to right with long window. Window flanking to left with later flat-roofed dormer above. Secondary timber panelled door with small window to left of centre; plate glass fanlight. Bipartite, crowstepped gabled dormer to attic. Later (1911), recessed service wing to outer left with 2 windows to ground and 2-light flat-roofed dormer to attic. Irregular fenestration to other bays.
SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: later glazing to attic. Lean-to 1915 extension below with large advanced flat-roofed canted bay to centre.
SE (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 4-bay with later (1911) service wing to R. Corbelled turret in angle with small window and finialled, conical roof. Quadripartite window flanking to right at ground; bipartite piend-roofed dormer above. Canted bay at ground to outer left. Tripartite window at ground to outer right with one section forming garden door; piend-roofed dormer above.
Predominantly small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some casements. Coped rendered stacks (some shouldered) with red clay cans. Red tile gabled roof with blocked eaves and plain bargeboard to SW.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE: ashlar-coped squared and snecked rubble boundary wall with decorative cast-iron gate
Detailed Attributes
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