10 West Court, Thistle Foundation, Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh

A Grade B listed building forming part of the northern section and western court of the Thistle Foundation village, designed by Stuart Matthew of Lorimer & Matthew following their competition win in 1945. Construction began in 1946 and the development was officially opened in 1950, with later additions and alterations undertaken.

The village was built to house disabled ex-servicemen and their families and adopts a 'Scotch' style village character. The complex comprises terraces of patio-plan houses in a mixture of two-bay single storey, single storey with attic, and single and two-storey special housing blocks, including four single storey and attic two-bay houses. All buildings are harled with slate or pantiled roofs, the latter featuring red tile eaves easing courses. Windows are characteristically detailed with slatted timber aprons to projecting triangular windows, most fitted with glazed doors on short returns, though some have been replaced with projecting rectangular windows. Strategic gables are adorned with the Foundation's heraldic shield and Latin inscription. Each house features an entrance door flanked by carved sandstone panels detailing the donor.

1-11 Queen's Walk forms a pantiled terrace of single storey and single storey and attic houses lining the entrance avenue. The garden elevations face south, with each house displaying a projecting triangular timber window in a bay to the right serving the living room, and a large square window to the left bay for the bedroom. Flat-roofed timber wallhead dormers with two windows sit centrally above, divided by slatted panels. A blank end gable faces west. Rear entrances are set in blank single storey elevations with doors at the centre, flanking walls screening the kitchen to the left and a private yard and store to the right. Two-windowed flat-roofed timber attic dormers occupy the centre above.

14-18 Queen's Walk comprises pantiled single and two-storey houses with entrances set in single storey kitchen and yard elevations to the north, detailed as the Queen's Walk terraces. First-floor bedrooms are lit by square windows with an additional small WC window between in each house. Garden elevations close West Court to the north, each with a projecting window to the right (without doors) and a square window to the left at ground level, and two square windows at first floor.

1-19 Chapel Court occupies the east end of Queen's Walk, comprising three pantiled ranges of single and single storey and attic houses grouped as Nos 1-6, 7-14, and 15-19 around a bowling green with a chapel and garden to the west. Details follow those of 1-11 Queen's Walk, with Nos 1-14 having garden fronts facing the bowling green, and Nos 15-19 with entrance fronts to the bowling green and gardens facing south.

1-4 West Court consists of pantiled single and two-storey free-standing houses in a splayed group closing West Court to the west, linked by a curving covered walkway. Entrances face northwest and are detailed as the other terraces. Garden elevations address the court, with projecting triangular windows replaced by projecting rectangular windows.

5-13 West Court comprises two pantiled ranges of single and single storey and attic terraced houses, grouped as Nos 5-10 and 11-13, enclosing West Court to the southwest. These follow the pattern of earlier terraces with entrances to the northeast and garden elevations to the southwest featuring rectangular projecting windows.

14-23 West Court is a curved terrace of stepped slate-roofed houses enclosing West Court to the southeast, detailed as the earlier terraces with entrances to the northeast and rear elevation to the southwest with rectangular projecting windows and close access to the road.

Windows throughout are timber fixed-pane and casement types with top-hoppers, some replaced with stained timber examples. Gable stacks are coped, and window boxes are carefully fixed to projecting windows at wheelchair height.

Interiors feature wide doorways, two-leaf doors to bathrooms, and folding doors between bedrooms and living rooms. Parquet flooring and generous fenestration create airy spaces adapted for accessibility.

A near-continuous covered timber walkway runs around the entrance elevations of the houses, stepping with the ground. It has a solid dado with open structure above, occasionally featuring timber railings. Breaks in the dadoes occur at intervals, aligned with pathways and junctions.