Ramsay House, 184 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1831. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical neo-Greek house set back from road; mirror image to No 186. Polished ashlar facade; architraved openings; advanced central bay; recessed ashlar quoins. Continuous base and string course; blocking course raised at centre. Corniced first floor windows; pedimented central window. Ionic doorcase at ground.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps up to central doorcase; fluted Ionic columns to left and right; blank architrave, frieze and cornice above. Timber panelled door; replacement plate glass fanlight. Pedimented single window with flanking decorative consoles to central bay at 1st floor. Single windows to both floors in bays to outer left and right. Decorative cast-iron window guards to 1st floor windows.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble sandstone; irregularly disposed single openings. Stone stair from ground floor to basement.

4-pane timber sash and case windows in all bays to W elevation. Timber sash and case windows to rear. Piended grey slate roof; ashlar wallhead stacks with linked octagonal flues. Single-storey sandstone segmental arches flank main block at first floor (left pend blocked).

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

COACH HOUSE: random rubble single storey with hay loft set back from main house (SW); mirrors that in adjacent No 186. Long and short rubble quoins; single opening in attic.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble wall to Newhaven Road. Ashlar gatepiers flank driveway; projecting cornices and base course; recessed panels; square caps; ironwork in place. Coped random rubble wall to N and S boundaries. Extensive garden to rear.