123 Grange Loan, Edinburgh

Robert Reid Raeburn, 1875. 2-storey with basement to rear, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa; subdivided. Cleaned coursed cream sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; dividing band course; eaves cornice; architraved windows; stone balustrades to ground floor openings to N forming balconies to 1st floor windows; bracketted cills to S.

N entrance elevation: 3-bay. steps up to open porch; Ionic capitalled columns supporting entablature; architraved doorway panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Single storey canted window in bay to outer right; bipartite window at 1st floor. Advanced tripartite window at ground in bay to outer left; bipartite window at 1st floor.

S OSWALD ROAD elevation: 4-bay. Full-height bowed bay to outer left with 3 windows to each floor. Round-headed 3-light stairwindow in 2nd bay to centre; window at principal (ground) floor. Single windows in remaining bays to right. E elevation: 3-bay. Brick housing block (1985) adjoining toouter left. Single windows in remaining 2 bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof, swept at eaves; bipartite dormer to N; tripartitedormer to S; box dormers to E and W; corniced ridge stacks. Interior not seen 1991.

Gatepiers boundary walls and railings: 2 panelled and corniced ashlar gatepiers to Grange Loan (formerly a further 2 gatepiers formed a central gateway with pedestrian gateways flanking); 6 semi-circular coped and corniced piers supporting highly decorative cast-iron railings; 2-leaf decorative cast-iron gates; quadrant stone balustrade flanking steps up to entrance; terminal dies with decorative urns. High coped rubble boundary walls.