Strathmore House, 4 Church Hill, Morningside, Edinburgh

Strathmore House, located at 4 Church Hill in Morningside, Edinburgh, is a villa built around 1860 with an addition in 1886. It features two storeys and a basement, with a symmetrical rectangular plan and a three-bay façade. The exterior is constructed from cream sandstone, with squared and snecked stugged rubble and polished ashlar dressings on the front. Notable architectural elements include a base course above the basement windows, a band course above the ground floor, and a cill band course at the first floor. The windows are architraved and adorned with ornamental cast-iron window guards on both the ground and first floors, while the ground floor windows also have panelled aprons. The building is topped with an eaves cornice and decorative angle urns.

On the north (front) elevation, the central doorway is framed by a consoled cornice and accessed by a flight of stairs with decorative cast-iron railings. The door is panelled, leading into a tiled vestibule, with a single window above it on the first floor. The outer bays each contain a single window at the basement, ground, and first floors.

The south (rear) elevation is two bays wide, featuring a broad, slightly advanced bay on the left with a rectangular projection and tripartite windows at the basement and ground floor, culminating in a canted window with a half-pitched roof at the first floor. The right bay has single windows.

On the west elevation, there is a tall bipartite stair window with a timber mullion and transom at the first floor, located to the right of centre, with leaded panes. The remaining bays have single windows, and there are two shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks. The east elevation has a blank bay on the left and single windows in the right and centre bays, along with two shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks.

The building features timber sash and case windows with four-pane glazing, a black slate piend roof with metal flashings, and four wallhead stacks. It also has a moulded eaves gutter. The interior was not seen in 1992. Surrounding the property is a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping at the rear and sides, a low wall with flat ashlar coping at the front, and cast-iron pedestrian gates.