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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