131 Grange Loan, Edinburgh

F T Pilkington, 1872. 2-storey, 3-bay with recessed 4th bay near rectangular-plan villa on steeply sloping site. Coursed stugged cream ashlar with contrasting grey polished dressings. Base course with contrasting grey buttresses and clasping buttresses to N, dividing cornice, partly machicolated; architraved windows; windows segmental-arched at ground floor and shouldered and pedimented at 1st floor, except in bay to outer left;contrasting long and short quoins.

N ENTRANCE elevation: steps up to round-arched architraved doorway in 2nd bay; door with shouldered panels; plate glass fanlight; single window above and in 3rd and 4th bays. Advanced gabled bay with rounded angles to outer left, corbelled to square at 1st floor; 2 single windows at ground; blinded balustrade forming apron to segmental-arched recess with bipartite window inset at 1st floor. Segmental-headed panel set in gablehead.

S (GARDEN) elevation: 3-storey, 3-bay. Full height canted window in gabled bay to outer right; doorway added to central light. Single windows inbay to outer left and at ground and 1st floor of central bay; round-arched stairwindow at 2nd floor.

W elevation: M-gabled; single windows at ground and 1st floor to centre.E elevation: largely blank.

Plate sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; heavily coped shouldered wallhead (1 to E) and gablehead (2 to W) sacks; coped gables; thistle finial to N gable.

INTERIOR: encaustic tiled vestibule; glazed tripartite vestibule door;timber handrail and decorative cast-iron balusters; ornate plaster cornices, brackets and roses.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low saddleback wall to street; high rubble walls adjoining house to outer left and right; shouldered pedestrian gateway to outer left; stugged ashlar gatepier with ball finial cap to outer right.

STABLE BLOCK: former stables recessed to outer right by gateway with pitched roof, wallhead stack, and hayloft breaking eaves, now converted togarage use; small contemporary lean-to to rear.