Strathavon Lodge, 46 Laverockbank Road, Edinburgh

Strathavon Lodge, located at 46 Laverockbank Road in Edinburgh, is a building originally constructed between 1804 and 1817, with significant extensions added to the south, likely in the early 1850s, and further alterations later in the century. The house has three bays, standing two storeys to the south and three storeys to the north. The southern elevation features coursed stugged ashlar, while the northern elevation is made of coursed rubble, with random and coursed rubble on the sides and droved ashlar quoins. It has a projecting base course and an eaves cornice to the south, along with dividing bands between the ground and first floors, and between the first and second floors to the north. The windows have moulded surrounds.

On the southeast elevation, the house is regularly fenestrated, with a central entrance bay that includes a timber panelled door and a plate glass fanlight set in a corniced surround with Doric pilasters. The east and west elevations reveal the extent of the original house, showing random and coursed rubble.

The north elevation is also regularly fenestrated, featuring a central entrance bay with a timber door, a six-pane fanlight, and narrow flanking windows. It has decorative cast-iron balconies on the first-floor windows, a cornice on consoles over the central window, bracketed projecting cills on the second-floor windows, and pediments breaking the eaves on the outer windows. A modern timber belvedere has been added to the attic.

Additionally, there are remains of an ancillary structure to the southwest, which includes a coach-house and stable, built with stugged sandstone and dressed quoins. The boundary walls are high and made of random rubble, topped with clinker, while tall ashlar gatepiers feature chamfered corners, base courses, and corniced pyramidal caps.

The windows predominantly consist of plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has corniced coursed rubble stacks topped with decorative octagonal cans.