Gogar Mount House, Glasgow Road, Edinburgh

Gogar Mount House, located on Glasgow Road in Edinburgh, is a classical villa built in 1817, with some internal alterations made in the later 19th century. The building is a combination of single and two-storey sections, featuring a three-storey square tower on the west side. It is constructed from coursed, squared whinstone, accented with stugged ashlar margins, and has broad eaves, a base course, a cill band course, and raised quoins.

The east elevation presents a symmetrical three-bay main villa block, accompanied by a lower four-bay ashlar block to the left. The two right bays are part of the house, while the remaining bays form a canted conservatory at the southern end. A porch at the center is supported by paired columns and features an entablature, with an urn above and a datestone from 1817. The entrance includes a tripartite glazed door topped by a large, radiating, depressed-arch fanlight. The gently bowed flanking bays contain two windows each. The tower rises behind the villa block, with a two-storey range of the house to the left. The lower four-bay conservatory block to the left is canted at the return, with large 16-pane sash and case windows dominating the wall space. The roof consists of slate on the two right bays, with ashlar coping at the division, and a glazed roof on the left.

The west elevation features a two-storey, two-bay block over a raised basement on the outer right, with a three-stage section to the left. The basement is enclosed by a balustrade made of Ionic columns, with a panelled die and slab coping topped with ball finials. Windows are symmetrically arranged in the right block, with two ground floor windows in the tower, a five-light window with stone mullions and transoms on the first floor, and a small four-light window on the upper floor, all topped with a slender ball finial.

On the south elevation, the two-storey, two-bay main block of the house is on the left, with the canted end of the conservatory on the right. The conservatory door is centrally located and features a two-leaf glazed upper section with a four-pane and narrow two-pane fanlight. The main range has regularly disposed windows, with larger windows on the ground floor.

The villa elevation has 12-pane lying-pane glazing, while the conservatory features 16-pane sash and case windows. The first floor has 9-pane (3 over 6) sash and case windows. The roof is a piend and platformed grey slate design with lead flashings, and there is a pedestalled ashlar wallhead stack with three, four, and five octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1992.