Lindores, 14 Cramond Road North, Edinburgh

Innes Thomson, ARIBA, 1936. A-symmetrical single storey and attic, 5-bay villa with Scots Arts and Crafts detailing. Whitewashed harl on red sandstone base course at principal elevations; raised and polished sandstone cills; piended tile-hung dormers; deep red-tiled jerkin roof; overhanging swept eaves. 2-storey semi-circular tower at front; later single storey, flat-roofed addition at rear. Pitched boarded timber garage set back at right.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single storey jerkin-roofed entrance bay to outer right comprising 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground in recessed porch, roll-moulded red sandstone surround; multi-paned vestibule door within. 2-storey drum-tower to left of entry; continuous small-paned windows at both floors. Tripartite windows at ground in 2 bays to left of tower (harled mullions); bipartite piended dormers aligned above. 2-leaf small-paned patio door at ground in bay to outer left.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay (originally single storey). Quadripartite window at ground in bay to right; 3-light canted window in bay to left; large tile-hung box dormer above.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 single attic windows centred in jerkin gable in bay to outer right. Projecting single storey service block at ground in bays to left; tile-hung tripartite box-dormer above.

Predominantly 8-, 9- and 16-pane timber sash and case windows; some timber casements to box-dormers. Red clay-tile roof; conical capped tower; harled stacks to N and S; large sandstone copes; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: a good, largely unaltered, interior decorative scheme survives with contemporary detailing such as timber skirting boards, mantelpieces, picture rails and central stair comprising timber dado panelling, timber handrail and turned balusters; basket-arched alcove to living room.

SUMMERHOUSE: contemporary rustic outbuilding to SW of house. Timber construction (undressed branches); coloured leaded windows.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: rounded coping to random rubble sandstone wall to Cramond Road North. Squared and snecked rubble sandstone piers flank entry; coursed projecting cornices; pyramidal caps; iron gates.