Boundary Wall And Terrace With Planters, 46 Frogston Road West, Edinburgh

A 2-storey detached house designed by James A Arnott in 1936, displaying Neo-Georgian and Cape Dutch architectural detailing. The building is constructed of rendered brick with concrete and reconstituted stone dressings, set on a slightly projecting rendered plinth beneath deep projecting eaves and concrete coping to parapets and flat-roofed sections.

The principal north elevation features a slightly projecting central section of three bays, dominated by a stylised, stripped classical reconstituted stone entrance porch. The porch is flanked by strip pilasters supporting a plain entablature surmounted by flanking ball finials with obelisk caps to the outer edges. A three-panel timber door with flanking six-pane fixed lights forms the entrance. To either side of the porch are narrow glazed lights. The central section is marked by two round-arched windows with reconstituted stone architraves that curve outward as flush keystones at their apexes, with the lower round-arched window incorporating a recessed panel below it. To the right is a similar two-storey stair window without the lower panel. A broad three-light window serves each storey to the left, the first-floor example being of lower height. The projecting central section is surmounted by a low coped parapet with a Dutch-style gablet topped by a flaming bush finial at its centre. To the outer left is a recessed bay with a small window to each floor, followed by a short section of rendered coped wall set back further. A round-arched gateway with concrete keystone and latticed timber gate is positioned here. To the outer right, two bays are recessed at first-floor level only; the projecting ground floor section has a coped parapet, with two windows to each floor (those to the ground floor being smaller). An attached garage is set back to the right, with a large entrance containing a two-leaf boarded timber door and a small window to its left.

The south elevation features a slightly projecting bay to the right of centre containing a three-light window to each floor and topped by a low coped parapet. Single ground-floor windows appear on both returns. Three bays set back to the left include a two-leaf glazed patio door to the right of the ground floor; a former window to the left, now converted to a door; a single first-floor window to the left; and a pair of windows to the right. The garage projects forward to the right, wrapping around the elevation corner, with an entrance containing a timber door with glazed upper panel and rectangular fanlight to its left, and a small window to its right. Two bays set back further to the right contain two windows to each storey. A rendered coped wall with a round-arched gateway adjoins to the right.

The east elevation displays a single first-floor window to the right and a short coped wall section adjoining at right angles to the outer left.

The west elevation features an entrance with a boarded timber door and rectangular fanlight to the right, a broad three-light window to the left, and a small first-floor window to the right. The garage projects at right angles immediately to the right of the entrance.

The house is roofed with a black pantile hipped roof; the garage has a flat, asphalted roof. A pair of symmetrically disposed rendered coped mid-pitch stacks stands to the south, topped with round cans.

Windows throughout are predominantly multi-pane timber-framed, mainly of sash and case design; smaller and broader windows are casements.

The interior layout and fittings remain largely intact. Glazed inner doors in a glazed surround open onto the hallway. The original staircase to the right features a timber balustrade with a cylindrical newel post in the form of an Art Deco scroll. The ground floor has maple floors and plain timber doors, including a large two-leaf door between the living room and a smaller adjoining room. Upstairs doors are panelled. Original reconstituted stone fireplaces are found throughout, including one in the living room with an angled brick-effect surround supporting a wide mantelshelf, and another in the room opening off the lounge with a plain deep lintel and mantelshelf flanked by recesses.

The boundary wall to the north is constructed of rubble with rubble coping, featuring a pair of gateposts at either end and a narrower gateway to the left of centre. Refaced steps descend to the house, flanked by stepped brick planters with stone coping.

Immediately to the south of the house is a concrete flagged terrace, with a pair of brick planters with stone coping along its outer southern edge and central steps descending to the main lawn.