Glenmay, 14 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh

Sir Robert Lorimer, dated 1895 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, roughly rectangular plan early Moderne style house on sloping site, with coped parapet hiding piended roof, swept-roof former verandah to centre of S elevation (now glazed in), entrance to W and scullery wing to E. Painted harl with red sandstone dressings and cills. Band lintel course to part of N and W elevations; sandstone coping to parapet.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: later bay to left with later front door through segmental arch. Bay window to centre; later outshot to outer right.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: central 2-bay swept roofed former verandah (now glazed in with canted bay to left); pedimented dormers above. Flanking 2-storey bays with later windows at ground and paired casements at 1st floor.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: single-storey scullery outshot to right with coped, shaped half-gable and ball finial. Irregular fenestration.

N ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated, stepped elevation. Advanced section to right (bay to outer right is later addition) with pyramidal terracotta finials at corners and mini segmental pediment-style feature to centre of parapet; tall staircase window to left and circular window at ground (other windows later). Recessed section to centre with fairly regular fenestration; parapet wall slightly lower with concave steps joining it to flanking bays. Recessed bay to left with single window at ground; scullery wing to outer left.

Small-pane glazing in replacement timber sash and case and casement windows. Rendered stacks with red sandstone cornicing and tall red clay cans. Graded grey slate.

INTERIOR: access not possible 2003.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped random rubble boundary wall.