Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

39 AND 41 (FORMERLY 29 AND 31) GREENHILL GARDENS, BOWMONT TOWERLB27366

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24773 71721
Coordinates
324773, 671721

Description

Circa 1860. Large 2-storey irregular-plan Italianate villa with 4-stage engaged entrance tower, Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar to S and E elevation, squared and snecked stugged rubble to rear and side. Base course; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters to gables; projecting bracketted cills to 1st floor windows; round-arched windows to tower. ENTRANCE TOWER: 4-stages; battered clasping buttresses at base; architraved doorway to E with bracketted cornice; 2-light window inserted in former doorway of same treatment to S. Single window with border glazing and round-arched astragals and consoled balustraded balcony above entrace door at 2nd stage to E, band course above. Small window to E and S at 3rd stage. Top stage with cill band course and impost course, tripartite windows with border glazing to each face; overhanging eaves and small wallhead stack to N.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-bay with entrance tower to outer left (see above); broad gabled bay to right with single window at ground floor with bracketted cill, single window at 1st floor above; small wallhead stack. Bay to left with 2 small round-arched windows at ground floor; 1st floor recessed with balustraded balcony and round-arched bipartite window with border glazing and round-arched astragals.

S (CHURCH HILL) ELEVATION: 3-bay with tower to outer right (see above); centre bay with full-height canted window swept to square in gablehead. Bay to right with raggle of former conservatory, single windows at ground (inserted in former door) and 1st floor. Bay to left with projecting tripartite window (added 1899) at ground floor; single window at 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; advanced gabled bay to right with single windows and wallhead stack. Secondary door with single window above to centre bay. Left bay blank. Single storey outhouse with piend roof to NW. W ELEVATION: recessed bay to left with single windows. Blank bay to right with wallhead stack to left corner.

Timber sash and case windows; mostly 12-pane, some plate glass glazing. Slate roof with metal flashings; 2 coped wallhead stacks (see above) with corniced square cans.

INTERIOR: subdivided; tiled vestibule, timber stair with turned balusters and fluted newel post; 17th century stlye plasterwork to underside of stair, 1st floor drawing room with ornate cornice with sculpted heads and floral plasterwork to corners of ceiling.

Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping, square coped gatepiers to pedestrian gate.

References

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First shown on 1861 Lancefield survey map. Dean of Guild 2/3/1899.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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