11 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

Circa 1850. 2-storey 3-bay L-plan house with later rear addition (1880). Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with droved ashlar dressings. Base course; bracketted cills; ashlar mullions; coped stacks with block corbels.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to centre with projecting pilastered and corniced doorway with chamfered reveals, 2-leaf panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight; tall segmental-arched and keystoned stair window with shaped margins at 1st floor above. Outer bays with projecting bowed bipartite window surrounds at ground floor, segmental-arched cornice with shaped keystone; single window at 1st floor just breaking eaves with half-piend roof.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced bay to right (1880) with single storey projection with 1930s bowed bay window; single storey projection in re-entrant angle; single storey flat-roofed outhouses to right.

S ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed garage at ground floor; 2 wallhead stacks.

N ELEVATION: wallhead stack.

Timber sash and case windows with 12-lying-pane glazing. Piend slate roof with metal flashings; 3 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack, some octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: hall re-decorated by Esme Gordon with plaster cameos of his children over husk garlands, timber staircase with cast-iron balustrade of anthemion flanked by palmettes.

Tall rubble wall to rear and sides with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with flat coping of droved ashlar.