50 Spylaw Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1875-80. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with sizeable additions to rear; cream sandstone, ashlar front and SW elevation, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and side with ashlar dressings; base course; banded string course above ground floor; eaves cornice and blocking course; segmental-arched windows at 1st floor; architraved windows to front elevation, at ground floor lugged with inset nailhead detail; bracketted cills; ashlar mullions.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: corniced recessed entrance porch in open angle of outer right bay, square banded column and pilasters on panelled pedestals with fluted upper sections, fleuron frieze and egg and dart cornice; 2-leaf panelled door with round-arched keystoned doorpiece, tiled vestibule; single window at 1st floor above; central bay with bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor; full-height canted window to left bay; 2 bipartite segmental-headed dormers in roof space.

SW (GILLSLAND ROAD) ELEVATION: 3-bay; rectangular consoled bipartite oriel to centre bay at 1st floor, moulded aprons; single windows in outer bays, door to left of centre in former narrow window; tall, linked and scroll-flanked corniced wallhead stacks above.

NE ELEVATION: 4-bay; recessed porch to outer left; ground floor with 2 bipartite windows to right bays, single window to bay left of centre, windows in centre bays lighting hall with square leaded panes and small stained glass panels; 4 single windows to 1st floor; tall paired scroll-flanked corniced wallhead stacks flanking blind window.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; central bay of main block advanced with French pavilion roof, pedimented dormer breaking eaves and wallhead stacks; segmental-arched dormer to right.

SERVICE BLOCK: large single storey with attic breaking eaves with gabled dormer windows to Gillsland Road (built post-1947); large post-modern (1992) 2-storey and attic semi-detached house adjoining.

Timber sash and case windows, plate glass glazing; Scottish slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 6 wallhead stacks (see above), tall octagonal cans; ornamental cast-iron gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping; cast-iron pedestrian gate to front.