Garden Walls, 1 And 2 Scotstoun House, South Queensferry

Peter Foggo, 1965, Ove Arup and Partners. Single storey, 10-bay, square-plan Modernist office block with central courtyard. Trabeated construction; concrete walls punctuated with large, square, recessed tinted sheet glazing; flat roof with fascia board on exposed overhanging I-beams; horizontal clerestory glazing under deep overhanging eaves. Projecting splayed base course set on brick plinth with coordinating steps and access pathways. Central glazed double doors to N elevation. Temporary portable building with corridor linking to E elevation. Lying in extensive grounds; linked to 19th century walled garden to earlier Scotstoun House (now demolished) to N.

INTERIOR: formal axial-plan layout with continuous corridor dividing office space to outer walls; services to central courtyard. Vertical timber boarding to walls; modular built-in shelving to outer concrete walls.

COACHHOUSE: earlier 19thC single storey coach house, formerly two ranges, that to the S substantially demolished with west wall remaining. Ranges linked by central archway leading to courtyard.

W ELEVATION. 5-bay smooth dressed ashlar courtyard wall with string coarse; centre taller advanced bay with keystone archway. Barred grilles to window openings to right bays to S range. Window to far left; doorway with penlight to penultimate left bay under piended roof of N range.

N RANGE: earlier doorway to right of S elevation; later 20th century twin window openings flanking blocked arrow slit to E gable; 3 later 20th century single doors to far left of N elevation, square stack to right at wallhead.

Dressed ashlar with base coarse to W elevation: rubble walls with dressed quoins; projecting cills. Rendered margins to additional openings: later 20th century glazing and timber doors.

WALLED GARDEN: earlier 19th century. N, E & W rubble walls remaining; S wall replaced by N wall of Scotstoun House, completing the square.