Lufra House, 1 Lufra Bank, Granton View, Edinburgh

Circa 1845. 2-storey and basement asymmetrical villa; L-plan with short projecting wing to W. Coursed tooled sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Droved ashlar base course; droved ashlar architraves with chamfered reveals to openings. Overhanging eaves; bargeboarded gables.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay; entrance to narrow gabled central bay; stone steps to entrance with gabled timber porch; semicircular panel at top of architrave; panelled timber door; window to 1st floor above. Recessed bay to left (forming re-entrant angle of ?L?) with broad window to ground floor and gabled dormer window to 1st floor; broad window to ground floor of gabled bay to outer right; window to 1st floor above.

N ELEVATION: 2 bays; that to right has finialled gable and projects slightly; single broad window to each floor. That to left has broad wndow to ground floor and smaller gabled dormer above.

W ELEVATION: 3 bays; that to centre gabled and projecting slightly; with former ground floor window converted to 2-leaf glazed door; single window above. Ground of gabled left bay obscured by later 20th century glazed lean-to conservatory on low stone wall; single blocked window above. Narrow bay to right is blank.

S ELEVATION: 3 bays; wide projecting gabled central bay with finial; steps down to central entrance to basement; panelled woden door (top panels replaced with glass); single window (architrave not chamfered) to right; pair of windows to ground floor; single blocked window centred above. Narrow flanking bays set back; that to right has single window to ground floor.

Mainly timber horizontal sliding sash windows; lying pane glazing (8 and 12 panes). Grey slate roofs. 2 tall panelled, corniced and coped ashlar stacks; one to either side of main body of house; round cans.

INTERIOR: original plan largely intact; timber doors (4-panelled) and doorcases. Entrance hallway with winding cantilevered stone staircase with cast iron balustrade supporting timber handrail.

BOUNDARY WALL: low curved coursed tooled sandstone wall with droved ashlar coping to E and SE; gateway (gates missing) to E with ornamented wrought and cast-iron arched lamp standard above. Coped coursed rubble wall runs S from house and curves round to meet Lufra Cottage. Coursed tooled sandstone walls with droved coping to N; tooled ashlar gateposts with droved chamfered angles; and similarly finished pyramid coping to E; later timber gates; adjoining rubble section to W.