Scott House, Kinnear Road, Edinburgh

Scott House, located on Kinnear Road in Edinburgh, is a two-storey and attic asymmetrical Arts and Crafts house designed by Alexander Paterson in 1899. The building features corniced windows on the ground floor and has swept roofs with bracketed eaves and kneelered skews on the gables. It is constructed from squared and snecked pink Corncockle sandstone, accented with red Locharbriggs dressings.

On the north elevation facing Kinnear Road, there is an advanced crowstep-gabled bay on the outer right that includes an oriel window. To the right and left, there are mullioned and transomed stair windows with leaded glass and carved panels above, all dated 1899. Below these windows are single-storey polygonal flat-roofed extensions. The entrance features a timber-boarded door located off-centre to the right, which is accompanied by an astraglled circular window and a small-pane-glazed fanlight set in a roll-moulded surround with a segmental pediment. To the outer left, there is a flat-roofed three-storey bay with small bi-partite and tri-partite windows, and a box dormer in the attic.

The south elevation at the rear includes a bowed bay on the outer right, topped with a segmental-pedimented dormer that leads to a swept conical roof. To the left, there is a crowstep-gabled bay featuring a Venetian window in the gable and a two-storey canted bay below, along with a tripartite dormer on the roof.

The east and west side elevations have modern linking blocks attached. The east side features a bowed bay with a finialled semicircular roof.

Inside, the hall and stair are decorated with impressed plaster featuring an EA monogram, thistles, and a Homeric profile. The original carved timber banisters and newel-posts are present on the stairs, along with several original timber chimneypieces. The dining room includes original timber-panelled quadripartite doors leading to a segmental arch.

The property is enclosed by a boundary wall made of red sandstone rubble topped with ashlar coping, and the gateposts are designed in an Art Nouveau style with wrought iron. The windows predominantly feature small-pane glazing in the upper sashes and plate glass in the lower sashes, all in timber sash and case frames, while the stair windows have leaded glass. The roof is covered with graded greenish slates, and there are corniced sandstone stacks with cylindrical cans.