4 Barnshot Road, Colinton, Edinburgh

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1896. Single-storey and attic 3 bay, T-plan detached house with piend-roofed scullery annex and later garage to S. Advanced, forward-facing gables to E and W; piend-roofed tripartite box bays to ground with arched central lights. Dormers breaking eaves; those to E (front) flat-roofed; those to other elevations with pedimented gables. Rendered with ashlar quoin strips and ashlar dressings to some windows. Basecourse. 2-leaf timber panelled door in chamfered architraved ashlar surround to N elevation; half-glazed inner storm door. Flanking window to left with dormer above. Advanced gable end flanking to right. Regularly fenestrated to E. Irregularly fenestrated to W with piended stair outshot in angle and modern conservatory to ground. Blind asymmetric gable to S.

Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows and casements to bays. Red-tiled roof with deep bracketted eaves and plain barge boards to gables. Tall corniced sandstone stacks with rendered panels; tall clay cans.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled inner door. ? timber panelling to hall with paired pilastered arches to timber staircase. Drawing room: Adam-style chimneypiece; ornate cornice; swag-frieze above picture rail: Dining room: Adam-style chimneypiece with original delft-tile insets; egg and dart and dentil cornice; hardboard timber-grained ? panelling. Original timber panelled doors throughout.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE: coped rubble boundary wall with decorative wrought-iron gate.