86 Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1850, incorporating earlier fabric (see Notes). 2-storey. 3-bay. Symmetrical piend-roofed plain classical villa with long wing to rear forming T-plan. Coursed stugged sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings; dressed, coursed sandstone rubble to rear. Base course. Broad mutuled eaves. Long and short channelled quoins. Moulded architraves to principal windows; panelled aprons to ground floor; bracketed cills to 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: projecting corniced porch to centre; channelled corner pilasters; corner blocks of balustrading remain; modern boarded door; windows to left and right returns. Regular fenestration to bays.

E ELEVATION: single bay E elevation of main block to left: single-storey projecting 3-light stone mullioned window to ground; balustraded parapet forming balcony to single window at first floor. 5-bay elevation of rear wing to right: regular fenestration with plain raised surrounds.

W ELEVATION: W elevation of main block to right: as E Elevation, but balustrade to projecting window damaged; 2 windows above to 1st floor. 5-bay elevation of rear wing to left: irregular fenestration (with some later alterations) to both floors.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay gable end; irregular fenestration to both storeys; broad mutuled eaves.

INTERIOR: plaster mouldings to ceilings of principal rooms. Decorative rooflight to staircase/landing.

Some plate glass in sash and case windows remain; some 12-pane glazing in sash and case windows to rear; most windows boarded up (2002). Graded grey slates. Corniced stacks. Stone skews to rear wing.

LODGE: 3-bay, single storey lodge with advanced gable entrance bay to centre, situated to SE of site.

SERVICE ACCOMMODATION: detached from main house: 2-storey, 3-bay block; dressed snecked rubble; angle quoining; grey slate piended roof. Single storey and attic block attached to E: possibley former coach-house. Random rubble, coped skew to E gable; irregular fenestration to ground floor; single dormer to attic; very ornate bargeboarding to dormer; cast-iron finial.

BOUNDARY WALL: ashlar-coped random rubble; coped and corniced rusticated gatepiers.