Sites and Monument Record: Avonhill House (SMR 510)

Description
Demolished after fire, c1959. Scottish Baronial style Victorian villa built c1888. The most prominent feature was a four-storey tower at the north-east corner, providing views towards Edinburgh. The tower was joined by a two-storey single-bay to the main house, which had crowstepped gables and a central crowstepped dormer pediment. In front of this was a single storey block, also with crowstepped gables and thistle finials, which served as a kitchen. The main entrance was on the south. This facade contained a datestone and corbelled turrets, one with a pepperpot roof.
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Object detail

Site type
Site
dwelling house
Site history notes
Land sold in 1872, at which time there was no house. The house was built for John Paton, printer in Edinburgh (The Tor) and a datestone on the first floor of the north facade read "JP. 1888"
The building caught fire c1959, and was subsequently vandalised and then demolished. Two cannon sat outside the north front for may years after the fire.
Site grid ref
NS 8967 7240

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