Colthwaite, 31 Woodhall Road, Edinburgh

Colthwaite is a house located at 31 Woodhall Road in Edinburgh, built around 1897 with a roof extension added in 1909 by builder Thomas Hardie. This two-storey house features an attic and has a square plan with a piend roof, deep eaves, and a flat-roofed extension. There is a piend-roofed scullery outshot on the northwest side and a canted bay window on the southeast. The first floor has bipartite corner windows at all corners except the east side, and the southwest elevation includes a bracketed porch and scrolled wallhead stacks. The exterior is constructed from squared, snecked, bull-faced sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings, and there is a corniced cill course at the first floor, along with long and short quoins at the corners, windows, doors, and chimneys.

The southwest entrance elevation features a timber panelled front door set in a stop-chamfered roll-moulded architrave, topped by a bipartite fanlight. Above the door, there is a deep timber canopy supported by scrolled brackets. The elevation has regular fenestration in three bays and a large flat-roofed dormer with bipartite windows located between the scrolled stacks at the centre of the attic.

Other elevations are irregularly fenestrated. The southeast elevation has a large canted bay with leaded lights, while the northeast elevation features a transomed and mullioned staircase window with leaded lights. On the northwest elevation, there is a single-storey scullery outshot with a timber boarded side door on the southwest return.

The house predominantly has sash and case windows, with 6-pane glazing in the upper sashes and plate glass in the lower sashes. The wallhead stacks are coped and corniced, topped with red clay cans, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate. The property also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, there is a tiled lobby and a half-glazed timber panelled lobby door with side-lights featuring coloured leaded glass. The principal rooms retain original cornices, and the timber staircase has turned balusters. A coloured leaded glass window is located on the staircase, and the dining room has an original fireplace with a bolection-moulded timber chimneypiece and a cast-iron grate. The three upstairs bedrooms feature corner windows with small drawers below the interior window cills.