The Croft, 6 Barnshot Road, Colinton, Edinburgh

The Croft is a detached villa located at 6 Barnshot Road in Colinton, Edinburgh, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson around 1895. This single-storey and attic building features an asymmetrical Arts and Crafts style. It has half-timbered gables that project out at the first floor on the north, south, and west sides, along with dormer-headed windows in the attic. The exterior is rendered and includes ashlar strip quoins and dressings, a basecourse, and a cornice beneath the half-timbering.

On the south elevation, which is the principal facade, there are three bays. The right side has an advanced gable with a box window at ground level and a bipartite window above that features a moulded cill. The central entrance consists of a timber panelled door framed by a roll-moulded architrave and topped with a segmental pediment. The remaining windows are regularly arranged.

The east elevation, facing the road, includes a tripartite box bay window on the right side and a pedimented dormer that breaks the eaves above, with a flat-roofed dormer to the left. A rendered chimney rises through the eaves on the right return, and there is a recessed gabled wing to the right with a single window at ground level and another in the gable apex on the return.

The west elevation features two advanced gabled wings that form a U shape with the main building. The larger wing on the right has no openings, while the left wing has half-timbering on the returns but not on the gable. This wing is irregularly fenestrated and includes a half-glazed timber boarded back door on the right return. There are two windows at ground level between the wings and a flat-roofed tripartite dormer above.

The villa predominantly has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with casements in the flat-roofed dormers. The roof is red-tiled with deep bracketed eaves and plain barge boards on the gables. The chimney stacks are asymmetrically arranged, made of ashlar with rendered panels and topped with tall terracotta cans.

Inside, there is a half-glazed timber panelled inner door. The dining room features an Adam-style timber chimneypiece set within a segmentally-arched timber panelled recess. There is also a timber panelled segmental arch leading to a box window recess, along with an egg and dart and dentil cornice.

The property is enclosed by a boundary wall made of ashlar-coped rubble, with a plain two-leaf cast-iron gate leading to the garage and a decorative wrought-iron gate to the garden. The garden gate features a central wheat-stalk motif and lettering that reads "THE CROFT," possibly designed by Thomas Hadden.