Garden Walls And Gate-Piers, Challenger Lodge, 15 Boswall Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1825 with later additions. Single storey and basement to front, 2-storey to rear. Austere Greek revival 3-bay villa with Greek Doric portico. Single storey and basement 2-bay wing to E with pedimented dormers breaking eaves. Cream sandstone tooled ashlar with dressed window surrounds, coursed rubble to basement, sides and rear. Base course, eaves cornice and blocking course. Architraved openings.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tetrastyle unfluted Greek Doric portico at centre with 3-stepped plinth; timber panelled door in moulded surround with glazed fanlight (5 circular panes, horizontally arranged), flanked by 2 single windows within porch. Single windows in bays to outer left and right corniced. E wing: band course separates ground and basement stories.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated full-height 3-bay canted projection at centre. Single windows at both floors to outer right. Additions to outer left.

Predominantly stylised 20-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; plate glass in upper sash of window to right of portico, in dormers of south facade of E wing and in upper windows of canted bay. Graded grey slate roof. Coped ashlar stacks with circular cans.

INTERIOR: square entrance hall with cupola sitting on dome on pendentives; good plasterwork, in excellent condition.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble garden walls; Square section gatepiers with recessed panels and corniced, pyramidal caps.