Scott House, Kinnear Road, Edinburgh

Alexander Paterson, 1899. 2-storey and attic asymmetrical Arts and Crafts house. Corniced windows to ground floor. Swept roofs with bracketed eaves; kneelered skews to gables. Squared and snecked pink Corncockle sandstone with red Locharbriggs dressings.

N (KINNEAR ROAD) ELEVATION: advanced crowstep-gabled bay to outer right with oriel window. Mullioned and transomed stair windows to right and left with leaded glass and carved panels above dated 1899; single storey polygonal flat-roofed extensions below. Timber-boarded door off-centre right with astraglled circular window and small-pane-glazed fanlight in roll-moulded surround with segmental pediment. Flat-roofed 3-storey bay to outer left with small bi- and tri-partite windows. Box dormer to attic.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: bowed bay to outer right with segmental-pedimented dormer to swept conical roof. Crowstep-gabled bay to left with Venetian window to gable and 2-storey canted bay below. Tripartite dormer to roof.

E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: modern linking blocks adjoining. Bowed bay to E with finialled semicircular roof.

INTERIOR: impressed decoration to hall and stair plaster (EA monogram, thistles and Homeric profile); original carved timber banisters and newel-posts to stairs. Several original timber chimneypieces. Original timber-panelled quadripartite doors to segmental arch in dining room.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPOSTS: red sandstone rubble boundary wall with ashlar coping. Art Nouveau wrought iron gaeposts.

Predominantly small-pane glazing to upper sashes, plate glass to lower in timber sash and case windows; leaded glass to stair windows. Graded greenish slates. Corniced sandstone stacks with cylindrical cans.