Cairney House, 26 York Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 2000. House. 2 related planning applications.
Cairney House, 26 York Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- fallow-lime-fog
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 2000
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
J Dick Peddie, 1854. 2-storey 3-bay M-roofed house, now divided. Advanced gabled bay with 2-storey canted window. Squared and snecked stugged cream sandstone with pinkish-yellow ashlar dressings. Base course. Buckle quoins; roll-moulded surrounds to windows. Gabletted skews, stone finials and bracketted gabletted skewputts. Wrought-iron resting to ridge.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to left with 2-storey stepped roofed 3-light canted window with stone panels separating windows at ground and 1st floor; date (1854) in carved panel in gable. Entrance in centre bay; timber panelled door with rectangular fanlight above; moulded stone doorpiece with parapetted cornice supported on decorative consoles; small window to 1st floor above. 2-light window with stone mullion to ground floor in right bay; single window above breaking eaves at gablehead; small carved motif in gable.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: later external stair to 1st floor entrance.
Predominantly 4-pane and plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey/blue slates; wrought-iron cresting. Decoratively corniced ashlar and snecked sandstone stacks without cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low ashlar-coped coursed sandstone boundary wall. Octagonal ashlar gatepiers with stepped conical caps and carved rosettes.
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