Dunalastair, 61 Dreghorn Loan, Edinburgh

Dunalastair is an Edwardian villa, built in 1902 by F W Simon and A Hunter Crawford, with later additions in 1935 by J D Cairn and Ford. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with an irregular plan and a stepped composition facing north. The left side features an advanced kitchen and scullery wing, while the right side has an entrance wing with a two-storey gabled tower. The main, south-facing elevation looks onto the garden and displays decorative half-timbering, along with advanced box bays on bases of snecked rubble and flat-roofed dormers. The exterior is predominantly white-painted render with some areas of snecked rubble. The south elevation has regular window placement, while other sides have irregular fenestration.

The north elevation, which is the main entrance, features a semicircular arch leading to an internal porch at ground level within the entrance tower, with a tripartite mullioned window above. To the right of the tower is a single-storey, flat-roofed bay with a snecked rubble base and a five-light window, and a tripartite window above. A two-storey kitchen wing is to the left, with tripartite windows facing north and irregular fenestration on the west return. An adjoining scullery wing has a later extension to its outer left, and a flat-roofed lobby with a timber-boarded back door to the east return.

The west side features a large, four-gabled conservatory at ground level with a timber frame on a rendered brick base, and a half-glazed, timber-panelled door leading from the house to the conservatory. The south-facing elevation, the principal garden facade, has five bays. A central conservatory/porch with a rendered base and lean-to piended roof is advanced at ground level, with a half-glazed, timber-panelled door on its return. A tripartite window sits above the porch. Tripartite windows are visible on both floors to the right, and a single window is to the left, with a bipartite window above it. Advanced, two-storey, piend-roofed box bay windows with snecked rubble bases are positioned in the outer bays. Three dormers light the attic. The rear of the scullery wing is recessed to the outer right, with a flat-roofed extension containing a butler's pantry and a tripartite window. The east elevation has irregular fenestration and a dormer to the attic.

The windows are predominantly six- and eight-pane, set in timber casements. The chimneys have rendered stacks with red clay cans, and the roof is covered in red tiles.

The interior features unusual timber-panelled doors, original fireplaces, some plaster cornicing, and timber panelling to the drawing-room inglenook.