Lindores, 14 Cramond Road North, Edinburgh

Lindores is a villa dating from 1936, designed by Innes Thomson and constructed with detailing characteristic of the Scots Arts and Crafts style. The house is asymmetrical in design, consisting of a single storey with an attic, and five bays. The principal elevations are whitewashed with a red sandstone base course, featuring raised and polished sandstone cills. Dormers are piended and tile-hung, and a deep red-tiled jerkin roof extends over the structure with overhanging swept eaves. A two-storey, semi-circular tower is positioned at the front of the building, and a later single-storey, flat-roofed addition is found at the rear. A pitched, boarded timber garage is set back on the right side.

The south (entrance) elevation features a single-storey, jerkin-roofed bay on the outer right, with a recessed porch containing a two-leaf, timber-panelled door set within a roll-moulded red sandstone surround; a multi-paned door is within the vestibule. To the left of the entrance is a two-storey drum tower with continuous small-paned windows on both floors. Tripartite windows on the ground floor are found in two bays to the left of the tower, featuring harled mullions, with aligned bipartite piended dormers above. A two-leaf, small-paned patio door is located at ground level in the bay to the outer left.

The west (side) elevation, originally single-storey but now two-bay, has a quadripartite window at ground level in the right bay, and a three-light canted window in the left bay. A large, tile-hung box dormer is positioned above.

The north (rear) elevation displays five single attic windows centred in a jerkin gable bay on the outer right. A projecting single-storey service block is at ground level in the bays to the left, with a tile-hung tripartite box-dormer above.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with 8, 9, and 16 panes. Some timber casements are found in the box dormers. The roof is of red clay tile, with a conical capped tower. Harled stacks are present on the north and south sides, along with large sandstone copes and various circular cans.

Inside, a largely unaltered decorative scheme remains, featuring contemporary detailing such as timber skirting boards, mantelpieces, and picture rails. A central staircase has timber dado panelling, a timber handrail, and turned balusters, and a basket-arched alcove is visible in the living room.

A contemporary rustic summerhouse, constructed of undressed branches with coloured leaded windows, is situated to the southwest of the house.

A boundary wall with rounded coping along the top, constructed of random rubble sandstone, runs along Cramond Road North. Squared and snecked rubble sandstone piers with coursed projecting cornices and pyramidal caps flank the entrance, with iron gates.