Thirlestane, 2 Barnshot Road, Colinton, Edinburgh

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1879. 2-storey and attic square-plan gabled villa with single-storey service annexes to N. Arts and Crafts gothic with canted bay to S rising to piend-roofed balustraded gazebo in attic and finialled piend-roofed bipartite dormers to N and S. Entrance in gabled E elevation. Bull-faced snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: square-panelled timber door in chamfered shoulder-arched opening; tripartite pointed-arched fanlight fanlight above, all within pointed-arch chamfered recess; roll moulded hoodmould with foliate ball stops. Small bipartite window to right; larger window above. Shoulder-arched bipartite window to gable apex; pointed-arch hoodmould with ball stops; quatrefoil inset with relief of bird, flanked by circular insets with floreat reliefs to tympanum.

S (PRINCIPAL/GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3-bay. 4-light stone mullioned 2-storey canted bay to outer left rising to balustraded balcony gazebo in attic with 3-light timber window behind. Bipartite windows at ground and first floor to outer right; bipartite dormer above. Irregular fenestration to central bay.

N (ROAD/REAR) ELEVATION: L-plan single-storey piend-roofed scullery annex to ground with early 20th century flat-roofed extensions and garage (see Notes). 2 mullioned bipartite windows at 1st floor, and single window to right. 2 bipartite dormers to attic.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows with small-pane glazing above plate glass. 4-pane glazing in lower sashes of larger windows to S. Leaded glazing in fanlight, 1st floor of canted bay to S and bipartite windows to N. Corniced gable-head stacks with yellow clay cans. Red tiled roof with ashlar coped skews.

INTERIOR: tiled lobby with glazed inner door. Stone staircase with decorative wrought-iron balusters and mahogany hand rail. Some original fireplaces with chamfered or roll-moulded stone insets and timber mantelpieces. Timber panelled doors with some original door furniture.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: high squared and snecked rubble coped boundary wall to N with pyramidal capped ashlar gate piers. Decorative wrought-iron gate to E and wrought-iron railings on low coped snecked rubble boundary wall.