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Edinburgh, 71 Dalkeith Road
House (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, 71 Dalkeith Road
Classification House (19th Century)
Canmore ID 129118
Site Number NT27SE 2627
NGR NT 26934 72228
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/129118
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Circa 1830. Single storey, 3-bay, symmetrical, classical house with recessed single storey wings to N and S; advanced, gabled central bay; strip quoins. Lightly stugged, coursed, cream sandstone ashlar. Base course; architraves and projecting cills; deeply overhanging eaves.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single windows in bays to outer left and right and to single storey wings.
Predominantly 12-pane, timber, sash and case windows; plate glass to single storey wing to S. Grey slate piended roof; tall, rendered and coped wallhead stacks; moulded cans.
Following the completion of the South Bridge in 1788, which linked the northern New Town and the Southside of Edinburgh, residential development to the south of Edinburgh expanded considerably. The lands of Newington were developed from the late eighteenth century as a residential suburb, comprising mainly detached villas.
The house at 71 Dalkeith Road first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1852 on a site formerly known as Rosehall. (Historic Environment Scotland)
