Stables, Ratho Park House, Edinburgh

William Burn, 1826, partly raised to 2-storey circa 1835. Quadrangular-plan, Tudor revival steading and stable. 2-storey main domestic block with single storey stable and office range rising to 2-storey centre block at N. Squared, stugged, honey-coloured sandstone; polished dressings and quoins, chamfered arrises, bipartite windows, gabled dormerheaded windows, base course.

S (MAIN) RANGE: symmetrical; formerly single storey raised to 2-storey. 3-bay cottage range to E and W of entrance gate, articulated 2-1; entrance bay slightly recessed; flush, 4-panelled door at ground, bipartite window at 1st floor. Giant octagonal sandstone gatepiers built into corners of buildings. Taller 2-bay block to right and left, windows regularly disposed; dormerheaded windows with blind arrowslit in gablet. Gate recesses on E and W returns of cottage.

E RANGE: gable of cottage with bipartite window at ground, 5-bay, single storey office range to right (some openings now blocked).

W RANGE: as E elevation.

N (REAR) RANGE: single-storey, 2-bay link block on either side of centre 2-storey, 3-bay block. Round-headed windows; dormerheads for centre block with slender lancets at ground. M-gabled to E and W with corbelled apex stacks.

COURTYARD: S ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay block at centre. Tudor-arch cart entrance at ground; 2-leaf wooden doors; dormerheads at 1st floor. Single storey, 2-bay link blocks.

E ELEVATION: symmetrical; single storey, 3-bay; centre Tudor-arch cart entrance; flanking windows. (Some internal alteration, originally would have resembled W elevation).

W ELEVATION: symmetrical; single storey, 3-bay. Tudor- arch at centre leads into porch area with door at centre and to left and right; flanking windows.

N ELEVATION: 2-bay rear elevations of cottages.

4-lying-pane glazing to bipartite windows; 8-pane sash and case for cottage rears. Grey slate roof; ashlar coping to skews and skewputts; coped wallhead stacks.