Hopefield, 17 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

1851; extended and added to Frank W Simon & Tweedie, 1895. Single storey and attic 3-bay cottage with later 2-storey bay to W. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar front, squared and snecked stugged ashlar rear and sides with droved dressings. Base course; ashlar quoins and mullions; eaves cornice. S (FRONT) ELEVATION: projecting ground floor with balustraded parapet; pilastered and corniced doorway at centre with rectangular plate glass fanlight. Tripartite windows with narrow outer lights flanking. 2

canted dormers with single windows and half-piend roofs. 2-storey addition to outer left with piend roof, cill band course at 1st floor, single window at ground floor, bipartite window at 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey; gabled projection to centre with apex stack. Gabled bay to left with apex stack and single windows; single storey lean-to projection in re-entrant angle with secondary door on return. Later wing to outer right.

W ELEVATION: rendered with 2 wallhead stacks.

E ELEVATION: gabled with apex stack; band course above ground floor meeting eaves cornice turning corner, single window at ground floor. Timber sash and case windows, some plate glass glazing, some 12-pane windows, some 6-pane upper, 2-pane lower sashes. Slate roof with metal flashings; 2 wallhead, 3 apex stacks (see above) 1 central stack, some octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: tiled vestibule and hall, cast-iron balustrade to stair. BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and W, flat ashlar coping to front and E, tall coped gatepiers of droved ashlar to E, timber pedestrian and carriage gates.