Garden Walls, 1 And 2 Scotstoun House, South Queensferry

The garden walls of 1 and 2 Scotstoun House in South Queensferry were designed by Peter Foggo in 1965, with the assistance of Ove Arup and Partners. This single-storey, 10-bay, square-plan Modernist office block features a central courtyard. It is constructed using trabeated methods, with concrete walls that have large, square, recessed tinted sheet glazing. The flat roof has a fascia board on exposed overhanging I-beams, and there is horizontal clerestory glazing beneath deep overhanging eaves. The building has a projecting splayed base course set on a brick plinth, with coordinating steps and access pathways. The north elevation includes central glazed double doors, and there is a temporary portable building with a corridor linking to the east elevation. The property is situated within extensive grounds and is connected to a 19th-century walled garden that belonged to the earlier Scotstoun House, which has since been demolished.

Inside, the layout is formal and axial, with a continuous corridor dividing the office space along the outer walls and services located in the central courtyard. The walls feature vertical timber boarding, and there is modular built-in shelving along the outer concrete walls.

The coach house, dating from the early 19th century, was originally a single-storey structure with two ranges. The southern range has been substantially demolished, leaving only the west wall. The two ranges are linked by a central archway that leads to the courtyard.

The west elevation of the coach house has a 5-bay smooth dressed ashlar courtyard wall with a string course. The centre features a taller advanced bay with a keystone archway. The right bays of the southern range have barred grilles over the window openings, while there is a window to the far left and a doorway with a penlight in the penultimate left bay, all beneath a piended roof of the northern range.

On the northern range, there is an earlier doorway to the right of the southern elevation, and later 20th-century twin window openings flank a blocked arrow slit on the eastern gable. The far left of the northern elevation has three later 20th-century single doors, with a square stack to the right at the wallhead. The west elevation is made of dressed ashlar with a base course, while the other walls are rubble with dressed quoins and projecting cills. Additional openings have rendered margins and later 20th-century glazing and timber doors.

The walled garden, also from the early 19th century, has remaining rubble walls on the north, east, and west sides, while the south wall has been replaced by the north wall of Scotstoun House, completing the square.