Netherbrae And Gatepiers, 9 Gordon Terrace, Edinburgh

Netherbrae and Gatepiers, located at 9 Gordon Terrace in Edinburgh, is a two-storey house built in 1897 by W N Thomson of Leith. This nearly rectangular-plan building features a freestyle architectural style, constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a broad dividing band course, and overhanging eaves. The first-floor windows break the eaves and are adorned with stylized round-arched and triangular pediments. The house also includes stone mullioned bipartite windows, with later dormer windows on the southwest and northeast sides.

The southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, is three bays wide. It features squat tapering columns that support an open pedimented porch. The entrance includes a timber panelled door with a single window immediately to its right, a canted window in the center that lights two faces only, and a bipartite window above on the first floor. Both flanking bays also have bipartite windows on each floor. To the right corner, there is a turreted single-storey projection with a two-light window.

The canted window has leaded panes, while the window to the right of the door features leaded stained glass. All other windows are two-pane timber sash and case with small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate and is swept at the eaves, featuring corniced stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls consist of polished sandstone ashlar gateposts topped with scrolled ball finials. There are planked timber gates with wrought iron panels and coped rubble sandstone boundary walls along the street. Additionally, there is a mansard-roofed garage to the west, which was converted from stables in 1911.