Masson Hall, 2 South Lauder Road, Edinburgh

Masson Hall is a two-storey house with a mansard attic, built in 1892 by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson. It features an irregular three-bay plan and is designed in the early 18th century Dutch Colonial style. The exterior is finished with harling and dressed with droved red sandstone. Notable architectural elements include curvilinear gables, an ogee-roofed tower bay, an eaves course, a cornice, channelled quoins, pulvinated friezes, and segmental-arched pediments on the timber dormers.

On the east elevation, there is a central gabled entrance bay with a round-arched doorway leading to a recessed porch. The entrance has a tripartite vestibule door with small-pane glazed panels and a fanlight. To the right of the terrace, there is a single window, with a bipartite window above it on the first floor, and a pedimented single window in the gablehead. The outer left bay has bipartite windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a bipartite dormer. The outer right bay features a full-height corniced five-light bow window that forms a balcony at the eaves, leading to a bipartite dormer window.

The north elevation has two bays, with a gabled bay on the outer left that includes two oeil-de-boeuf windows at the ground floor, a single window on the first floor, and a tripartite window in the gablehead. The outer right bay has a full-height canted window with a cornice and an ogival roof.

The south elevation consists of three bays, with a full-height corniced canted window in the outer right bay that forms a balcony to a single window in the gablehead. The remaining bays have varying sizes of single windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a mansard roof and dormer in the outer right bay.

The west elevation features a single-storey link connecting the main house to a student accommodation block designed by Frank Perry in 1966. This link has a broad nepus gable with a window on the outer left and two small flat-roofed dormers on the outer right.

The building predominantly has small-pane sash and case windows, with two-pane lower sashes on the ground floor. The roof is covered with grey-green slate and includes four gablehead stacks, clay cans, and moulded eaves guttering, along with some original rainwater goods, including a hopper on the east side.

Inside, Masson Hall retains several original features, such as plasterwork, woodwork, and fireplaces. The boundary walls are high coped rubble walls along South Lauder Road and Grange Loan, complemented by decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gates on South Lauder Road.