The Croft, 6 Barnshot Road, Colinton, Edinburgh

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, circa 1895. Single storey and attic, asymmetrical?plan Arts and Crafts detached villa. Half-timbered gables jettied out at first floor to N, S and W; pedimented dormer-headed windows at attic. Rendered with ashlar strip quoins and dressings. Basecourse; cornice under half-timbering.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 bays. Advanced gable to right with box window at ground and bipartite window above with moulded cill; timber panelled door in roll-moulded architrave surround with segmental pediment to centre. Regular fenestration elsewhere.

E (ROAD) ELEVATION: tripartite box bay window at ground to right; pedimented dormer breaking eaves above, with flat-roofed dormer flanking to left. Rendered chimney rising through eaves to right return. Recessed gabled wing to right with single window to ground and to gable apex in return.

W ELEVATION: 2 advanced gabled wings forming U with rest of building. Wing to right larger with no openings. Wing to left with half-timbering to returns but not to gable; irregularly fenestrated with half-glazed timber boarded back door to right return. 2 windows to ground between wings; flat-roofed tripartite dormer above.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; casements to flat-roofed dormers. Red-tiled roof with deep bracketted eaves and plain barge boards to gables. Asymmetrically arranged corniced ashlar stacks with rendered panels and tall terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled inner door. Dining room: Adam-style timber chimneypiece within segmentally-arched timber panelled recess; timber panelled segmental arch leading to box window recess; egg and dart and dentil cornice.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES: ashlar coped rubble boundary wall; plain 2-leaf cast-iron gate to garage; decorative wrought-iron gate to garden with central wheat-stalk motif and lettering reading THE CROFT, possibly by Thomas Hadden.