Walled Garden And Garden Houses, Craigentinny House, Loaning Road, Edinburgh

Craigentinny House is a 16th and 17th century laird's house, with alterations and additions dating to around 1850 by David Rhind. It is an asymmetrical four-storey building featuring turrets and gablets, constructed of rubble stone with freestone dressings.

The principal south elevation showcases a central section with three small windows at ground floor level. A plain doorway is positioned to the right of the middle bay, above which are three larger windows at the first floor, followed by two smaller windows to the right at the second floor, and two more smaller windows with crowstepped gablets to the right at the third floor. A corbelled chimney rises to the left of the middle bay, extending through the first floor to a shouldered stack above the eaves. A round turret projects, corbelled out at the first floor, in the re-entrant angle of the advanced outer bays to the left. Projecting freestone guttering with gargoyles runs along the eaves of the central section. A heavily buttressed corner to the east rises to a square bartizan, dated circa 1850, topped with a crowstepped gable. It contains a square window and decorative window margins and corbels, together with a small slit window at the second floor level. To the west, the bays are advanced, with a recessed doorway to the right, ashlar surround, sash windows at the first floor, a small window at the third floor, a central window at the ground floor, and smaller windows at intermediate levels, indicating a stair tower. Smaller windows are visible on the east facing flank at the first through third floors.

The west elevation features an advanced gable end from the stair tower, with vestigial crowstepps forming hips around a large chimney stack, flanked by corbelled turrets with conical slate roofs and finials. Each turret has three windows, with four varied and irregularly disposed windows on the gable end, and two small slit windows.

The stair tower has one small, two larger windows on its west face. A circular, abbreviated tower is present, with crowstepped gables, corbelled skewputts, and a window and small slit window in the re-entrant angle of the stair tower at ground and first floor levels.

The north elevation presents four bays over three storeys and a basement (the ground floor being at the east front). An entrance door, situated on the piano nobile between two bays to the right, has a Roman Doric pilastered, architraved doorpiece with later steps on a rubble base.

The east elevation is noted separately.

The roof is of grey slate, pitched over the north and south fronts, and piended above the stair tower. The windows are timber sash and case, regularly disposed but of varied size and margins on the north elevation. An additional window is set at the second floor between the centre bays on the north elevation.

A raised garden extends to the west, contained by a rubble stone wall. Rubble stone boundary walls run along the north and south sides, with a driveway entrance to the west of the south wall, featuring squared and snecked rubble quadrants and square ashlar gatepiers. A doorway with a dressed lintel and surround is positioned to the right, with a new entrance on the east side. Remains of a small pavilion, square with gargoyles at the east corner of the wall, are also present. Two small garden houses stand at the east and west of the original garden walls across Loaning Road, constructed of rubble stone with domical rubble roofs.