15 Swanston Village, Edinburgh

15 Swanston Village is made up of at least two single storey cottages (converted into one) that sit within a small group of early to mid-18th century thatched cottages at the foot of the Pentland Hills on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The cottages were refurbished around 1959-62 by J Wilson Paterson for the Edinburgh Corporation. It forms part of the west side of the group.

It is built on a rectangular-plan of six bays and its north gable is attached to the taller former schoolhouse. The entrance (east) elevation has a pattern of two paired doors and two single windows to the left with three closely set windows to the right. The rear elevation has four windows and also two small ventilator windows. There is a single window in the south gable. The cottage is random rubble on rough rubble foundations with deeply recessed window margins. The front elevation has raised ashlar stone door and window margins.

The window openings are small with timber sash and case frames with horns and a predominantly nine-pane glazing pattern (doubled glazed around 2016). The doors are vertical timber boarded with small rectangular glazed panels. The roof is thatched in reed with a concrete ridge and concrete skew with a slate skewputt detail. There is a squared gable stack with a plain clay can.

The interior was not seen in 2017.