Lufra House, 1 Lufra Bank, Granton View, Edinburgh

Lufra House is a villa dating from around 1845, situated at 1 Lufra Bank, Granton View, Edinburgh. The house is two storeys high with a basement, and it is set out in an asymmetrical L-plan configuration, featuring a short projecting wing to the west. The exterior is constructed from coursed, tooled sandstone with dressed ashlar detailing. A droved ashlar base course runs around the building, and droved ashlar architraves with chamfered reveals frame the openings. The eaves overhang, and the gables are adorned with bargeboards.

The east (entrance) elevation has three bays. The central bay is narrow and gabled, containing the main entrance with stone steps leading to a gabled timber porch incorporating a semicircular panel above the architrave. A panelled timber door leads into the house, with a window positioned above it on the first floor. A recessed bay to the left, forming the re-entrant angle of the L-shape, has a broad window on the ground floor and a gabled dormer window on the first floor. The bay to the outer right also has a broad ground floor window and a window above it.

The north elevation features two bays. The right-hand bay has a finialled gable and projects slightly, with a single broad window on each floor. The left-hand bay has a broad window on the ground floor and a smaller gabled dormer above.

The west elevation is divided into three bays. The central bay is gabled and slightly projecting, and a former ground floor window has been converted into a two-leaf glazed door. A window is situated above. The ground level of the left-hand gabled bay is hidden by a late 20th-century glazed lean-to conservatory built on a low stone wall, with a single blocked window above. The narrow bay to the right is blank.

The south elevation comprises three bays, with a wide, projecting gabled central bay topped with a finial. Steps lead down to an entrance to the basement, where a panelled wooden door (with the top panels replaced with glass) is located. There is a single window to the right, and a pair of windows on the ground floor. A single blocked window is centred above. Narrow flanking bays are set back; the right-hand bay has a single window on the ground floor.

The majority of the windows are timber, horizontal sliding sash windows, with lying pane glazing (eight and twelve panes). The roof is covered in grey slate. Two tall, panelled, corniced and coped ashlar stacks, one on each side of the main body of the house, have round cans.

The interior plan remains largely original, and retains timber four-panelled doors and doorcases. The entrance hallway contains a winding, cantilevered stone staircase with a cast iron balustrade supporting a timber handrail.

A low, curved wall made of coursed, tooled sandstone with droved ashlar coping runs along the east and southeast boundaries and includes a gateway (gates missing) with an ornamented wrought and cast-iron arched lamp standard above. A coped rubble wall extends south from the house and curves to meet Lufra Cottage. To the north, coursed tooled sandstone walls with droved coping are complemented by tooled ashlar gateposts with droved chamfered angles and pyramid coping, along with later timber gates. An adjoining rubble section exists to the west.