38 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1869. 2-storey, 3-bay (entrance bay recessed), rectangular-plan villa. Squared and snecked rubble; finely stugged and coursed ashlar with polished dressings at E (entrance) elevation. Base and eaves courses; stop-filleted quoin strips with miniature carved capitals; bracketed cornice. Raised architraved window surrounds.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone porch in re-entrant angle of recessed bay to outer left; 3 detached columns with carved capitals (roses, dafodils, and thistles) supporting 2 segmental arches with keystones; bracketed cornice above, surmounted by decorative cast-iron brattising; panelled door; architraved surrounds; segementla-arched fanlight; wooden soffit; encaustic-tiled floor. Single window above entrance; double window flanking to right at ground floor with slightly advanced surround and entablature; bipartite window above; full-height canted bay to outer right with dividing entablature.

N ELEVATION: blank.

S ELEVATION: painted glass window at ground floor of advanced entrance b ay at centre.

W ELEVATION: contemporary single storey square-plan serive witn with piended roof to left; secondary entrance to right; irregular fenestration at 1st floor; nepus gable and dormer window above.

Plate glass sash and case windows to E; 8-pane sash and case windows to W. Grey slate piended roof; lead flahsing; moulded eaves guttering; 4 wallhead stacks (3 shouldered and rendered).

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

Low ashlar coped boundary wall to street. Garage attached to S.