63, 63A Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1866, doubled in size by George Beattie & Sons, 1885. Single storey and attic irregular-plan cottage-style, gabled, subdivided villa. Cream sandstone, square and snecked rubble with droved ashlar dressings to front and NW elevation. Stop-chamfered reveals; ashlar mullions; ornately carved bargeboards to finialled main gables; plain bargeboards to remaining gables and dormers; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters: grooved and corniced stacks.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3-bay; gabled timber porch at centre with kingpost and timber gablehead, carved brackets and pendant, panelled door on return, tiled vestibule; 1st floor window breaking eaves in jerkin-headed dormer. Gabled bay to left with canted ashlar window at ground floor rising to smaller canted timber window at 1st floor; timber-boarded gablehead. Gabled bay to right with canted window wiht half-piend roof at ground floor; bipartite window in gablehead.

NW (COLINTON ROAD) ELEVATION: 3-bay blank gabled bay to right with kingpost, wallhead stack. Single window to centre bay. Bay to left with single window at ground floor; bipartite window at 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead with kingpost.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: M-gabled with 2 wallhead stacks, single storey garage at right angle to SE; large modern forestair to right bay. Left bay with single window at ground floor, bipartite window in gablehead. Secondary door and garage at left.

SE ELEVATION: advanced gabled wing to right with single window and wallhead stack, single windows on return (some modern). Gabled bay to left with kingpost and wallhead stack, single storey flat-roofed modern half-glazed extension at ground floor.

GARDEN HOUSE: small early 20th century gabled timber garden house with mock-half timbered gable, curved timber parapet to front, single windows to side elevations.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Slate roof with lead flashings; 5 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack. INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping arched over pedestrian entrance at NW, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, pedestraian gate in chamfered NE corner with cast-iron gates and original cast-iron gatepiers on panelled ashlar pedestals.