39 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

James Lessels, 1886. Substantial, asymmetrical Scots Baronial 3-storey and attic, 3-bay house (now subdivided); set back from street behind iron-railed low coped wall. Central curved bay in re-entrant angle from 1st floor carried above eaves as turret with decorative machicolations, fish-scale slated conical roof and baluster finial. Bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings, rubble to rear.

N (JEFFREY STREET) ELEVATION: timber-panelled single-leaf door to centre (original brass door handle); plate glass fanlight in roll-moulded shoulder-arched surround below balustraded 1st floor balcony; mullioned and transomed window with bowed glass to 1st floor of turret. Advanced crow-stepped gable to right with 4-light transomed window to ground; pentice-roofed mullioned and transomed oriel corbelled out at 1st floor. Kingposted timber dormer to attic at left.

W ELEVATION: crow-stepped advanced gable; segmental-pedimented dormer. Modern timber door to No 41; further single storey wing with timber door.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced plain gable; bipartite windows; recessed section with irregular fenestration. Single storey wing; rear timber single-leaf door to garden; 2 small windows.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs; flat roof to single storey rear wing. Corniced gable and wallhead stacks; moulded octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: vestibule with half-glazed door; red herringbone-tiled hallway; dado rail; cornicing, brackets and consoles; floor level alcove; plain cornicing in study and committee rooms, timber architraves and shutters; scale and platt stair from ground to 2nd floor (winders at 2nd) with painted balusters (banister and newels unpainted); large rectangular attic cupola. 1st floor drawing room (now divided into 2 rooms) with timber panelled architraves and dado; ornate shell-moulded cornice; pale grey marble torus-moulded chimneypiece with bay leaf, berry and ribbon carving; blue and white 'Delft' tiled slip. 2nd floor bedroom pale grey plain chimneypiece; cast-iron grate; glazed tile hearth.

BOUNDARY WALLS: plain iron gate and railings set on low coped wall to front. High, coped random rubble boundary wall running NW to SE to right of house.