Millbank, 33 Lanark Road West, Currie, Edinburgh

Millbank, a house dating to circa 1837 with later 20th-century alterations, is a two-storey, symmetrical three-bay building. The house is situated on a triangular site on a steeply sloping ground, fronting a main road and bordered to the rear by a side road. The conservatory addition to the rear is excluded from the listing.

The house is constructed of coursed rubble with droved sandstone dressings. The principal (north) elevation has a regular window pattern, with an ashlar band course marking the division between the ground and first floors, and an eaves course. The south elevation has an irregular window pattern that was altered in 1973, including a new window opening and a window opening converted into a door. The east gable features a ground-floor arched entrance with a timber door, a single offset window at the first floor, and a small brick lean-to outhouse to its left. A large continuous roof light runs along the rear roof pitch.

The roof is slated and has stone skews, as well as reconstructed droved and corniced chimney stacks. The windows are later 20th-century timber, multi-pane.

Internally, the building contains some six-panel timber doors and an arch in the upper hallway, which appear to date from the building’s initial occupancy. Two later 20th-century staircases have been installed. The ground floor plan was altered in the 1970s when the two floors were linked internally.

To the east of the house stands a single-storey, square-plan outbuilding constructed of pebble-dashed brick and with a piended and pantiled roof. It has two doors and a window facing the street, and a double garage door on its west elevation. The interior is divided into two parts and features a stone slab floor. Visible within the main space are a tether ring fixed to the floor and metal hooks attached to the walls, remnants of its former use as a slaughterhouse. Slots in the rear door were designed to take a wooden bar for external locking.