57 Oxgangs Road, Edinburgh

This is a 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular detached house with an attached garage, built in 1936 by Rowand Anderson and Paul. It is an example of artisan classical architecture.

The house is constructed with harled brick and concrete dressings, featuring a brick plinth and concrete coping to the gables and flanking walls. The north (principal) elevation has bow windows and external timber window shutters to the principal (north and south) elevations. A prominent, pedimented doorcase frames the main entrance, with a semicircular concrete step in front. Timber water butts stand on square brick plinths on either side of the north elevation. The south elevation features shallow bow windows in the outer ground floor bays and an external shuttered window in the central bay. A low parapet sits above.

The attached garage is to the left of the main house. It has a coped flat roof and two entrances with boarded timber doors, one slightly recessed. A short section of coped wall with a round-arched gateway leading to the rear garden is located to the right.

The west elevation includes a projecting coped wall and a tall stair window. The east gable has had its pitch truncated and shouldered to form a parapet. The east elevation features a projecting flat-roofed garage and a small inserted window on the right.

The house has a red tile roof, mainly 12 and 16-pane timber sash and case windows, and coped harled gablehead stacks with round cans. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative rainwater heads are also present.

The interior retains its original layout, 2-panel timber doors, and a tall entrance hall that is almost a cube in dimensions, lit by a stair window. The main living areas face south, and a simple timber chimneypiece with a black tiled fire surround remains in the main living room at the southwest corner.

A coped brick wall with plain coped gatepiers stands to the north of the house.