Garage, Talgarth, 6 Spylaw Park, Edinburgh

George D McNiven, 1914. Large, 2-storey, 5-bay, irregular-plan villa with piended roof, deep eaves, advanced entrance bay with Dutch gable and advanced end-bays to N; advanced end-bays with half-domed canted windows at ground and swept-roofed verandah between to S elevation; service wing to E. Harled with brown sandstone dressings. Base course; outer bays slightly corbelled out at 1st floor. Plain sandstone cills to all windows.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced Dutch-gabled bay to centre; 2-leaf oak panelled door in stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, Tudor-arched architrave with carved decoration to spandrels; Tudor-arched window above with stop-chamfered sandstone margins. Irregular fenestration to recessed flanking bays and advanced, piend-roofed end-bays.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3 bays. Canted window at ground to left; smaller canted window on brackets above. Shouldered wallhead stack breaking eaves to right of windows. Regular fenestration in other 2 bays.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3 principal bays and recessed blind service wing to outer right. Central verandah with swept roof supported on 2 tapered columns and brick corbels; French door with sidelights to rear of verandah; bipartite, piend-roofed dormer above. Piend-roofed bays flanking to right and left; canted windows at ground with copper half-domes; tripartite windows at 1st floor.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: service wing, now forming 6b. Flat-roofed outshot at ground with later extension; timber panelled front door with later pilastered surround to N return. Irregular fenestration; gabled dormer, breaking eaves at 1st floor.

Timber sash and case windows, predominantly with plate glass in lower sashes and small-pane glazing in upper sashes. Plain rendered stacks with red clay cans. Red tile roof with red ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled door to inner lobby with hand-modelled floral plaster motifs to ceiling and above picture rail. Timber panelled inner hall; beamed ceiling; painted stone chimneypiece with roll-moulded, stop-chamfered, Tudor-arched opening; staircase though roll-moulded Tudor arch with barley-twist timber balusters. Some balusters with carved floral motifs. Drawing room with 17th century style plasterwork; roll-moulded fireplace with flanking bookshelves and advanced canted chimney breast in elliptical-arched ingleneuk; decorative plasterwork to edge of arch and canted sides of chimney breast.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATES AND GATEPIERS: triangular-coped random rubble boundary wall. Cylindrical rubble gatepiers with cornice and rounded tops. 2-leaf timber gates with wrought-iron decoration to upper section.

GARAGE: 1920s motor-house, roughcast with piended red tile roof; later garage door.