39 Fountain Place, Lasswade

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 21/01/1997 Supplementary Information Updated 19/11/2018 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Loanhead NGR NT 28029 65817 Coordinates 328029, 665817 — David Bruce, 1875, with later alterations and additions; converted to housing, 2000. Rectangular-plan buttressed Gothic church with gable front (NE) elevation, 4-stage tower to left (E) angle and square-plan addition to rear (S). CHURCH: droved concrete blockwork (brick addition) with concrete dressings; hoodmoulds to front elevation window and 3rd stage openings of tower; chamfered surrounds to windows; slab copes to buttresses; kneelers to gabled skews; dentilled eaves course to side elevations. TOWER: continuous angle buttresses to first 3 stages; band course between 1st and 2nd stages; band course between 2nd and 3rd stages; cill course to 3rd stage; dentilled cornice with clocks on all faces to 4th stage; angle pinnacles and battlements. NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-light plate traceried window to centre of gable block; trefoil window to gablehead above. Hood-moulded over point-arch doorway at 1st stage of tower; 2-leaf boarded door; point-arched window to SE face; slit window to 2nd stage; slit window to SE face, louvred point-arched opening to each face at 3rd stage; clock to each face at 4th stage. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay with bay to outer right as 1st stage of tower. Pointed arch windows to each bay, subdivided horizontally due to flat conversion, velux roof lights above each bay; buttresses between each bay. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: new paired central lights for flats. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: regular 6-bay with point-arched window to each bay, subdivided horizontally due to flat conversion, replacement glazing in each, 3rd from right shortened to incorporate new entrance

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.