Boroughfield, 32 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1865-70. 2-storey 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with large modern extension; cream sandstone, ashlar front, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and sides with droved ashlar dressings; base course; moulded string course above ground floor; 1st floor cill course; deep dentilled eaves cornice; round-arched balustraded parapet with moulded panels to corners and centre; channelled quoins with moulded panels above ground floor and fluted at eaves level; corniced and scroll-flanked shouldered wallhead stacks to side elevations. SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: central entrance porch with paired squared Roman doric columns, frieze and cornice; dies above with carved diamond panels and carved balusters; 2-leaf panelled door, tiled vestibule; architraved window at 1st floor; full-height canted window (1-3-1) in left bay; full-height canted window (1-2-1) in bay to right. Large 2-storey flat-roofed modern addition to left.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey canted window to right (later addition); 2 single windows above; modern window to left; timber mullioned bipartite window to centre bay at 1st floor; wallhead stack to left. NE ELEVATION: central tall bipartite stair window with ornamental astragals at 1st floor; small timber mullioned bipartite with ornamental astragals at ground floor below; secondary door flanked by small window and single window at ground gloor to right; single window flanked by small windows at 1st floor above; wallhead stack to left.

SW ELEVATION: modern addition; wallhead stack to main block. Timber sash and case windows, plate glass glazing; Scottish slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 3 wallhead stacks (see above).

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: high rubble boundary wall to rear and sides, recessed ashlar wall to front with saddleback coping, obelisk gatepiers with rounded arrises and stugged panel to front face.