Westfield Cottage, 40 Pentland Avenue, Edinburgh

Sir Robert Lorimer, 1896-7. 2-storey, 3-bay, roughly square-plan with service outshot to E. Arts and Crafts house with traditional English and Scottish features; round entrance turret, carved window cills, finialled gables, and jerkin-headed roof to rear. Harled sandstone with red sandstone cills and other dressings. 1st floor slightly corbelled out to SW elevation and turret. Eaves course to turret only.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance turret recessed to outer right; timber panelled front door in roll-moulded sandstone architrave with lintel carved GOD'S BLESSING IS MY HERITAGE and 3 rose motifs below. Main elevation symmetrical; central bipartite window at ground; flanking quadripartite windows; 3 tripartite windows at first floor. Cills of 1st floor windows inscribed as follows from left to right: BLISSIT BE ZE LORD FOR ALL HIS GIFTIS; CONSTANTI PECTORI MORTAIIUM VMBRAE; LAVS ET HONOR DEO.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated. Gable to right with large staircase window and small window with central stained glass panel at ground to right. Single-storey section with single window to left.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey section with half-piended roof. Service wing outshot to left with flat-coped walls and ball-finial at corner. Fenestration in 3 bays with windows of different sizes.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced round turret to left with windows at both floors and front door (see above) to left return; advanced stack and blind gable to outer left. Single-storey 2-window section to right. Recessed service wing to outer right with glazed timber side door.

Predominantly timber casements with leaded lights. Corniced rendered stacks with red and yellow clay cans. Red tile roof with red ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods; decorative hopper to SE.

INTERIOR: tiled entrance lobby with half-glazed timber panelled inner door. Advanced chimney breast in dining room with flanking cupboards (cupboard to left with 2-leaf timber panelled door; cupboard to right with glazed door); fireplace with roll-moulded sandstone surround and decorative cast-iron grate with raised rose motifs. Large 2-leaf door between dining room and drawing room. Drawing room fireplace with roll-moulded sandstone surround and timber mantelpiece with double shelf. Small sitting room off drawing room with small stained glass panel in window and some decorative plasterwork to ceiling. Working shutters and original ventilation units in dining room and drawing room. Plain plaster cornices to principal rooms. Timber panelled interior doors with original door furniture. Stained glass panel in bathroom window.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: flat-coped random rubble boundary wall; gatepiers with ball caps.