1 Grant Avenue, Edinburgh

1 Grant Avenue in Edinburgh is a single-storey and attic, asymmetrical Arts and Crafts villa designed by Alexander A Foote in 1923. The building features a multi-gabled design with red hung tiles, a Mansard roof, swept eaves, canted and square bay windows, and swept dormers. The exterior is finished with rake-jointed random rubble and pebble-dash render, accented with red tile decoration at the quoins.

The entrance elevation has a stepped composition with a timber boarded door set in a roll-moulded surround to the right, featuring a flame-like tile detail above the doorway and a small window above that. To the left, there is an advanced bay with a central two-storey canted window, which is tile-hung between the storeys, and a tile-hung gable that projects over the bay. There is also a flat-roofed two-storey canted bay in the angle, with the upper storey tile-hung.

The front elevation is also stepped, with an M-gable to the left and a staircase window in the left bay. The right side has irregular fenestration on both floors, with flame-like tile details above all the windows. An advanced one-bay rendered section to the right is single-storey and attic with a Mansard roof, featuring two windows at ground level, a dormer above, and another dormer on the left return.

The rear elevation consists of two bays with irregular fenestration. The left bay has a Mansard roof and dormer, along with later rendered extensions at ground level. The right bay has a shorter roof, a tripartite window under the eaves, and an advanced canted window at ground level with a bell-cast tile roof, featuring a broken tile border where the roof meets the wall.

The garden elevation has three bays, with two-leaf glazed garden doors to the right and a dormer above. The centre features an advanced piended box bay window with five-light windows, tile-hung at the first floor and with tile cills at ground level. There is a former loggia at ground level to the left, now enclosed with modern sliding doors, and the roof sweeps down from the Mansard, with a five-light dormer in the attic.

The windows are predominantly metal-framed casements with small-pane glazing, while the larger ground floor windows and some at the rear have plate glass in their lower sections. There are two rendered stacks, with the eastern stack featuring a broken tile pattern at the base. The roof is covered with red tiles, and there are cast-iron down-pipes with decorative hoppers at the M-gable.

The interior was not seen in 2002. The property includes a decorative cast-iron gate, but there is no boundary wall.