123 Grange Loan, Edinburgh

123 Grange Loan is a villa built in 1875 by Robert Reid Raeburn. It is a 2-storey building with a basement at the rear and has a rectangular plan with three bays. The exterior features cleaned coursed cream sandstone with polished dressings, a base course, a dividing band course, an eaves cornice, architraved windows, and stone balustrades at the ground floor openings on the north side, which create balconies for the first-floor windows. The south side has bracketed cills.

The north entrance elevation has three bays and features steps leading up to an open porch supported by Ionic capitalled columns and an entablature. The doorway is architraved with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight above. To the outer right, there is a single-storey canted window, and a bipartite window is located at the first floor. The outer left bay has an advanced tripartite window at the ground floor and a bipartite window above.

The south elevation facing Oswald Road has four bays, with a full-height bowed bay on the outer left containing three windows on each floor. The second bay from the left features a round-headed three-light stair window, and there is a window at the principal ground floor. The remaining bays to the right have single windows.

The east elevation has three bays and is adjacent to a brick housing block built in 1985 on the outer left. The remaining two bays also have single windows. The windows throughout are plate glass sash and case. The roof is grey slate with a piended design, swept at the eaves, and features a bipartite dormer on the north side, a tripartite dormer on the south side, and box dormers on the east and west. There are also corniced ridge stacks. The interior was not seen in 1991.

The property is enclosed by gatepiers, boundary walls, and railings. There are two panelled and corniced ashlar gatepiers at Grange Loan, which originally had two additional gatepiers forming a central gateway with pedestrian gateways on either side. Six semi-circular coped and corniced piers support highly decorative cast-iron railings, along with two-leaf decorative cast-iron gates. A quadrant stone balustrade flanks the steps leading up to the entrance, with terminal dies featuring decorative urns. The boundary walls are high and made of coped rubble.