Garage, 4 Spylaw Avenue, Colinton, Edinburgh

Dunn and Findlay, 1902. 2-storey, square-plan Voysey-inspired Arts and Crafts house with single-storey swept piend-roofed service wing to NE corner, gables to S with balcony between; canted windows to E and W; deeply recessed windows; deep bracketed eaves and later greenhouse to NW. Cream-painted harling with brown sandstone coping and red sandstone doorpiece. Flat-roofed dormers to service wing. Platform skewputts to gables.

EAST (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled elliptical-arched front door in arched, chamfered, corniced architrave. 4-light canted window with battered base to left, tripartite window above. Service wing advanced to outer right with dormer to E and 2 windows below; arched entrance to S return to interior courtyard, bipartite window to left. Broad, shouldered wall-head stack to main house above service wing.

S (PRINCIPAL/GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3 bays, symmetrical. Advanced gables to outer bays; quadripartite windows at both floors. Recessed section to centre with balcony to centre; tripartite window at ground; half-glazed door with flanking windows to first floor; timber railings to balcony.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-light canted window with battered base to right; tripartite window above; tripartite windows at both floors to left.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: stepped composition, irregularly fenestrated. Gable to outer right with bipartite window at 1st-floor; timber and glass greenhouse with brick base at ground, outshot to W; original timber shelves with cast-iron legs in greenhouse. Irregularly fenestrated section to left with tall staircase window. Advanced gable to centre with modern French doors at ground and tripartite window above. Advanced service wing to outer left with dormer to attic, windows below; timber boarded back door to right return.

Predominantly timber casements with leaded lights. Harled corniced shouldered stacks. Red tiled roof with plain terracotta ridge tiles. Cast-iron down-pipes with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled door to lobby. Large inner hall through arch; timber chimneypiece with decorative cast-iron grate. Staircase through arch with fretwork balusters. Original fireplaces in study and dining room with timber chimneypieces and cast-iron grates. Original fireplaces in bedrooms, 1 with delft-tile insets. Original double sink in scullery. Game larder with slate shelf.

GARAGE: late 1930s or 1950s, harled garage with 2-leaf timber boarded doors and red tile, bell-cast piended roof.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-coped random rubble boundary wall; red sandstone ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps.