Rankine House And Gatepiers, 21 Hallhead Road, Edinburgh

Arthur Balfour Paul, 1923. 2-storey near T-plan Arts and Crafts house. Squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings and some brick window surrounds. Eaves course; irregular quoins and margins.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: studded boarded timber door; recessed rectangular stone plaque above, surmounted by single window breaking eaves in curvilinear gable; to right, corniced stack, shouldered at

2 levels, rises full height of building, breaking eaves; to left of entrance bay, large stair window to 1st floor; next bay to left comprises bipartite window with stone mullion to ground and, to 1st floor, pedimented single window breaking eaves; to left, tripartite window with stone mullions at ground and single window to 1st floor above; piend-roofed single storey wing with 3 single windows clasps angle to outer left; single window to 1st floor of main block behind.

SW ELEVATION: gabled bay to left with decorative curvilinear coping extends down to ground floor level at right side; canted 4-light window with stone mullions to ground, 2 single windows to 1st floor above; single window to ground, outer right of gabled bay; tripartite mullioned window to ground of bay to right; 2 single windows, breaking eaves in gable head, to 1st floor.

NE AND SW ELEVATIONS: not seen (1996)

Variety of small-pane glazing patterns, including 15- and 20-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; 5 corniced and chamfered stacks, 3 with pairs of cans, 1 with 3 and 1 with 4. Scrolled skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen (1996).

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble boundary walls to Hallhead Road and Mayfield Road; stone gatepiers with boarded timber gates to Hallhead Road.