1 Earl Haig Gardens, Trinity, Edinburgh

1 Earl Haig Gardens, Trinity, Edinburgh

A quadrangle of 2-storey flats and houses built in 1921 to designs by James Macintyre Henry and Thomas Forbes Maclennan. Four asymmetrical terraces face a central garden and play area. The two terraces to the north-east and south-west (Nos 11-15 and 28-31) are executed in Arts and Crafts cottage style with swept roofs and overhanging eaves, roll-moulded doorways and tabbed window surrounds. The two terraces to the north-west and south-east (Nos 1-10 and 16-27) are in Inter-War Classical style with corniced open pediments and oculi. The building is constructed in harled brick with stone dressings. The brick is smooth to Nos 11-15 and 28-31, and rough to Nos 1-10 and 16-27.

The south-east principal elevation of Nos 1-10 is mirrored from the central block. Bays are grouped as 1, 2, 8, 4, 8, 2, 1, with the outer two bays lower. The elevation is regularly fenestrated. The central bay has a corniced open pediment with garlanded returns, 2-light windows to ground and first floors, and an oculus in the gable. The penultimate bays to left and right are slightly advanced, with corniced open pediments and 2-light windows at ground and first floor. Paired arched doorways with cornices on consoles appear above in bays 4, 6, 8 and 10. Each doorway has a 2-leaf timber panelled door (several replaced) with a decorative semicircular fanlight above, and a small window to the first floor. The side elevations feature an open pediment, a square-headed door with cornice on console offset to the rear at ground level, and a window above the door at first floor. The north-west rear elevation has a central block stepped back.

The north-east principal elevation of Nos 11-15 is mirrored from the centre. Three outer bays are advanced, with 4-light windows at ground and 3-light windows at first floor breaking the eaves in paired wallhead gables in the two outermost bays. Boarded doors in roll-moulded surrounds appear in the outermost advanced bay with an offset small window at first floor. A boarded door in roll-moulded surround occupies the central bay, with 2-light windows at ground and first in the flanking bays. Stone 'sarcophagi' memorial plaques sit over the central door and between the two outer bays. The side elevations have a boarded door and two small flanking windows with hoodmoulding over at ground floor, and two windows above.

The north-west principal elevation of Nos 16-27 is mirrored from the centre. Bays are grouped as 2, 2, 5, 2, 5, 2 and 2, regularly fenestrated. Three advanced 2-bay sections appear at bays 3 and 4, 10 and 11, and 17 and 18, with garlanded open pediments, 2-light windows at ground and first floors, and oculi in the gables. Arched doorways with cornices on consoles appear in bays 2, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16 and 19, each with a timber panelled door and decorative semicircular fanlight above (open pend with entrance to flats at Nos 7 and 14). The side elevations feature slated swept-roofed lean-to porches with steps up to the door in the north-west return. Slated washhouses stand to the north and south.

The north-west principal elevation of Nos 28-31 is mirrored from the centre. Outer bays have 4-light windows at ground and 3-light windows at first floor in a wallhead gable with the swept roof lowering to the outside. An arched doorway to a pend occupies the central bay, flanked by 2-storey canted bays. Bays 3 and 7 have boarded doors in roll-moulded surrounds. Harling sweeps to form a dividing course stepped up over carved memorial plaques above the doors.

Nos 1-10 and 16-27 have 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, grey slates, and stone-coped harled brick stacks on ridges and at end gableheads. Stone skews appear at Nos 1-10, with a terracotta ridge to the piend roof at Nos 16-26. Modern windows have been inserted to Nos 11-15 and 28-31. Red roof tiles cover these sections. Stone-coped harled brick stacks, many with flanking ventilation panels and circular cans, sit mainly on the ridges.