5 Spylaw Park, Edinburgh

Murphy and Kinross, 1910. 2-storey, T-plan, late Arts and Crafts style suburban villa with M-gable to S swept down to W forming porch; jerkin-headed gable jettied out at 1st floor to W; slightly lower service wing to E with swept roof, and piend-roofed pavilion to S. Prominent red tile roof with deep swept eaves. Painted harl. Painted sandstone cills and tile mini-string courses above principal windows. Basecourse.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced gable to left; glazed door with side-lights at ground; quadripartite casement above. Similar casement at ground to right return. Swept-roof porch recessed to right, supported on rendered pier; timber panelled front door with top lights.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated M-gable; single-storey square-plan pavilion advanced to right with tripartite casements to each elevation. Roof swept down over service wing to outer right.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced section to outer-right with timber-boarded back door and flanking windows. Slightly later wall (1920s) with tiled coping and arched gateway advanced from right of door.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated. Gable to centre with tripartite casement at 1st floor; asymmetrical shouldered stack to right; lean-to outshot at centre of left bay (formerly WC and larder).

Metal casements with leaded lights. Coped rendered stacks with red clay cans. Red tile roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hopper to S.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped random rubble boundary wall with fence above.