Easter Dalry House, Distillery Lane, Edinburgh

Easter Dalry House is a classical mansion built in the earlier to mid 18th century, featuring two storeys and an attic with three bays, along with single-storey pavilion wings. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings.

On the north elevation, the entrance features a corniced ashlar tripartite doorpiece that includes a six-panel architraved door, with the bottom left panels opening separately, flanked by blind panels. Above is a parapet with ball finials that contains a fanlight as an apron to the architraved first-floor window. An attic window is positioned just under the eaves. The ground and first-floor windows in the flanking bays have consoled cornices. The wings each have a single window, although the window in the west wing has been altered to serve as a louvred ventilator duct for an electricity sub-station.

The south elevation is three storeys high with three bays, featuring an architraved door and cornice at the centre. A pedimented Venetian gablet sits above, with a blank centre and a gablehead stack. The wallheads have been raised on either side and given flat roofs to accommodate a pair of large, unsympathetic late Victorian tripartite windows.

The east elevation includes a door and a louvred garage door to the wing, along with a window to the second floor in the gable. The west elevation features a door with a window to the right of the wing, a pair of windows at the first floor, and a window to the second floor that breaks into the gablehead.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case with multi-pane glazing. The building has tall stacks with moulded copes, grey slates, and plain skews.

Inside, the house is remarkably well preserved, showcasing a mix of timber and plaster panelling, shutters, and flatirons. The entrance under the stair is somewhat awkward due to the house being turned around in the 19th century. The hall features a depressed arch, and the staircase has twisted mahogany balusters that become plain at the attic landing. On the ground floor, there is a panelled room to the west, and a room beyond in the wing that has a coved ceiling and heavy cornice. On the first floor, both rooms are panelled; the room to the west has a recess in the north wall, while the room to the east features a good shouldered and panelled stone chimneypiece of the earlier 18th century William Adam type, possibly originally a bedroom and dressing room to the north. The attic floor has been converted into one large room, with the original chimneypiece located at the centre of the gablet.

The boundary walls are made of coursely stugged sandstone with semi-circular coping. The entrance and gatepiers were created in 1992.