1 Grant Avenue, Edinburgh

Alexander A Foote, 1923. Single-storey and attic, asymmetrical Arts and Crafts villa. Multi-gabled with red hung tiles, Mansard roof, swept eaves, canted and square bay windows and swept dormers. Rake-jointed random rubble and pebble-dash render with red tile decoration at quoins.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stepped composition. Timber boarded door in roll-moulded surround to right; flame-like tile detail above doorway; small window above. Advanced bay to left with central 2-storey canted window, tile-hung between storeys. Tile-hung gable projecting over bay. Flat-roofed 2-storey canted bay in angle, tile-hung at upper storey.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: stepped composition. M-gable to left; staircase window to left bay, irregular fenestration at both floors to right; flame-like tile detail over all windows. Advanced 1-bay rendered section to right, single-storey and attic with mansard roof. 2 windows at ground, dormer above and dormer to left return.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay, irregular fenestration. Bay to left with Mansard roof and dormer; later rendered extensions at ground. Bay to left with short roof; tripartite window under eaves; advanced canted window to ground with bell-cast tile roof; broken tile border where roof meets wall.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3-bay. 2-leaf glazed garden doors to right; dormer above. Advanced piended box bay window to centre with 5-light windows; tile-hung at first floor, tile cills at ground. Former loggia at ground to left (now enclosed with modern sliding doors); advanced roof swept down from Mansard; 5-light dormer to attic.

Metal-framed casements, predominantly small-pane glazing; plate glass in lower sections of the larger ground floor windows and some plate glass at ground floor to rear. 2 rendered stacks, stack to E with broken tile pattern at base. Red tile roof. Cast-iron down-pipes with decorative hopper at M-gable.

INTERIOR: not seen 2002.

GATE: decorative cast-iron gate. No boundary wall.