85, 85A Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Edward Calvert, 1897. Pair of 2-storey and attic 2-bay semi-detached houses with side entrance porches and rear projections. Cream sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings, ashlar front and squared and snecked rubble to rear and sides. Red ashlar base course; cill band course at ground floor; moulded cill course at 1st floor; stilted windows, segmental-arched at ground floor; decorative aprons to 1st floor and attic windows; fluted frieze and moulded capitals to mullions; ashlar eaves course; bipartite timber dormers with moulded surrounds.

NW (FRONT) ELEVATION: elevation mirrored about centre; single storey lean-to glazed entrance porch alongside outer bays with classical ashlar front, rubble-built to rear (No 85 glazed portion removed and replaced with rubble forestair), doorway flanked by panelled pilasters, key-pattern frieze, cornice and blocking course, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight. Centre bays with tripartite window to ground and 1st floor, dormer above. Outer bays with shallow full-height canted windows (1-2-1) corbelled to square in Dutch gable with ball finial, bull's-eye window with keystone and shaped apron to gablehead. SE (REAR) ELEVATION: central single storey projection with mansard roof; tall wallhead stack linked to roof above flanked by quadripartite dormers.

NE ELEVATION: single storey part-glazed part rubble-built porch at ground floor; single central window at 1st floor; tall central shouldered and corniced wallhead stack; dormer to right.

SW ELEVATION: as SE elevation with glazed portion of porch removed (see above).

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Green slates, piend and platform roof with lead flashings; red cresed ridge tiles to front gables; 3 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping.