67 Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh

Morris and Steedman, 1961-64. Stepped pair of identical 2-storey flat-roofed villas, built on joint site, which slopes to N; No 67, built by Robert Steedman for himself and another owner at No 65, on lower ground level to N. Square on plan, with single storey wings extending to S, containing stores/cellars at ground (to left of entrances on E elevation, recessed behind car ports), and carrying balconies/'terraces' over, approached from 1st floor kitchen/utility area. On garden front, the 2 are of more detached appearance, with linking single storey wings set well back; on entrance front 2 elevations give more unified and enclosed appearance, screen walls in front of terraces at 1st floor over car ports linking the 2, and with flat-roof oversailing terraces. Horizontal emphasis, with full-width strip windows at ground and 1st floors, on E (entrance) elevations with smaller glazed area, with narrow strip windows at ground and continuously-glazed strip-windows at 1st floor; garden elevations more open, with full-height, timber-framed, continuously-glazed windows at 1st floor (cills at floor level, aluminium hand rail carried across at waist-height). 'Pierson' sashless sliding windows. Brick, breezeblock, and concrete finished with whitepainted cement render; plywood, with aluminium angle edging to roof.

W ELEVATIONS: 'drying areas' to right in front of single storey stores wings and behind vertical timber screens (surviving as designed at No 67, altered subsequently by owners at No 65).

INTERIOR: original interior scheme survives at No 67, with fitted cupboards, flooring, wall and ceiling boarding, all redwood (cedar). Large sliding wood-panelled screens subdivide large living area at 1st floor. No 65 not seen.