Malcolm House, Fettes College, East Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh

Malcolm House, located at Fettes College on East Fettes Avenue in Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson in 1880. This two-storey, L-plan house features a steep roof and a conical-roofed circular stair tower at the re-entrant angle. The exterior is made of coursed, rock-faced sandstone with polished dressings, and it displays long and short quoins, as well as mullioned and transomed windows.

On the north (principal) elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay to the right, which includes a two-leaf timber panelled door set in a roll-moulded, shouldered surround, flanked by chamfered pilasters. Above the door is a carved panel featuring a bee and oak leaves, with a ballflower frieze beneath the cill of the window above. The stair is lit by bipartite cusped, leaded windows, topped with a quatrefoil in a crocketed pediment. To the left, there are tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, with the ground floor windows being transomed and set beneath relieving arches. The circular stair tower has narrow windows. To the outer left, there is a three-storey wing in an L-plan, featuring a faux buttress at the ground level and a barge-boarded dormer in the attic. There is also a later single-storey piend-roofed extension attached.

The south (garden) elevation has an advanced gabled bay to the right, which includes a two-storey canted window. To the left, there are three bays: the right bay features a two-leaf glazed door with a mullioned fanlight and a relieving arch above; there is a steeply pedimented dormer that breaks the eaves at the first floor; and mullioned and transomed tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, with the upper windows having barge-boarded dormerheads.

On the east elevation, there is a later single-storey piend-roofed extension to the right and an advanced gabled bay to the left, along with a barge-boarded dormer in the attic. The windows are predominantly border glazed, with some featuring small-pane leaded glass. The roof is covered with red tiles and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. The building has tall corniced ashlar stacks with tall cylindrical cans, stone skews, and cast iron rainwater goods.