Guard House, Redford Cavalry Barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

A single-storey and attic, 3-bay guard house by Harry B Measures, built between 1909-1915 with a veranda supported on cast iron columns to the principal northeast elevation and a 2-bay flat-roofed wing to the southwest. The building is of dark, coursed rock-faced rubble with pale ashlar dressings and the windows have projecting cills. The rear elevations have small, high, rectangular windows. One window to the ground floor has vertical metal bars.

The principal elevation to the northeast is asymmetrical. There is an entrance door to the far left with a window to its right. There is another entrance door off-centre to the right with 2 windows to its right and one to the left. There is a pair of large gabled dormers to the attic, both with Diocletian windows.

The glazing is mostly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows.

The interior was seen in 2016. There have been some later alterations to the interior. The early 19th century arrangement of large, brick-lined room with windows at a high level and a corridor with former cells remains.

The pair of tall, rock-faced gatepiers are situated to the immediate northeast of the guard house and are cylindrical with ball caps and an arcaded details below a cornice. They have flanking curved quadrant walls with flat coping between raised corniced piers with ball caps. There are 2-leaf cast iron gates and pedestrian gates to the sides.

A row of cast iron railings with some larger cast iron pillars with hexagonal baluster heads stretches along the roadside southwest from the guard house to the later entrance to the barracks, northeast to the junction of Oxgangs Road North and south along Oxgangs Road North.