Shell House, East Craigie, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

Earlier 19th century. L-plan farmhouse, comprising symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay gabled principal block with single storey flat-roofed entrance porch centring principal (E) elevation; single storey, single bay wing projecting from rear elevation, continued to W as single storey 3-bay wing. Stugged sandstone walls with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course. Block cornice to eaves (continuous across gables). Projecting cills to windows.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, single storey flat-roofed entrance porch projecting at ground in centre bay; 9-panel timber door with plate glass fanlight to S side, windows to E and N sides; cornice and blocking course at eaves; regular fenestration in flanking bays and at 1st floor.

N GABLE: single storey piend-roofed wing advanced at ground with blank gable rising behind.

S GABLE: single window to left at ground and 1st floors; W wing recessed at left.

W WING: 2-storey, 2-bay N and S elevations, regularly fenestrated at ground and 1st floors, blank W gable with single storey, 3-bay wing projecting at ground.

12 and 8-pane timber sash and case windows; graded grey slate roof; cast-iron rainwater goods; stugged sandstone and harled gablehead stacks, all coped with circular cans; overhanging ashlar skew copes.

SHELL HOUSE: ornamental garden building comprising shell-covered brick cylinder tapered above door lintel to domed roof; shells applied to interior walls.