St Colm's College Including Boundary Walls And Cast Iron Railing Panels, 23 Inverleith Terrace

St Colm's College, built in 1908 by Gordon Lorimer Wright, is a three-storey, L-plan college and dormitory building designed in a mixed late Arts and Crafts style with Beaux-Arts details. It is set back from the street and features an associated landscaped and terraced garden. The principal elevations to the north and west are constructed of snecked red sandstone squared rubble, while the southwest corner and rear are rendered. Red sandstone ashlar is used for the margins, doorways, canted windows, cills, and lintels. A prominent Doric round-arched porch with an entablature and a scrolled wrought iron gate is located on the north side. The building has irregular fenestration, with cat-slide, shouldered, and bell-cast dormers.

The college includes an integral chapel, which features a stained glass window of Christ the Light of the World by William Hole. To the west, there is a red sandstone ashlar balustraded garden terrace, with channelled ashlar piers topped with fluted urns. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with a 15-pane glazing pattern, along with transomed lattice windows. The building has tall squared rubble and rendered chimney stacks, graded slates, and terracotta ridge tiles.

Inside, there is a good Edwardian Arts and Crafts decorative scheme. The mahogany stair features carved lion newel posts, and there is good Arts and Crafts ironmongery throughout. The chapel has a coffered timber ceiling.

The boundary walls consist of a low stone wall with red sandstone copes that rise in quadrant curved sections to form gatepiers. Decorative cast-iron panels with curvilinear detailing are placed at intervals along the wall.