Mackenzie House, 9 Kinnear Road, Edinburgh

Ramsay Traquair, 1910. 2-storey and attic 7-bay asymmetrical Scots Renaissance/Arts and Crafts house with finialled boat dormers breaking eaves. Random rubble with ashlar dressings.

N (KINNEAR ROAD) ELEVATION: corniced ashlar porch in 3rd bay from left with boarded timber door to left and small window to right in roll-moulded surrounds; Venetian window lighting stair above. 2-storey lean-to projection with crow-stepped skews to outer right. Corniced flat-roofed porch to right with bipartite window to N and timber boarded door to E return; shaped, finialled gable above with scrolled skewputt and mullioned and transomed window lighting stair.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation: advanced shaped-gabled outer bays with 3-storey canted windows; 4 inner bays regularly fenestrated.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: single gabled bay to right with adjoining single storey piend-roofed extension; timber-boarded door with boat-shaped pediment.

INTERIOR: impressed decoration to hall and stair plaster (EA monogram, thistles and Homeric profile). Original timber banisters and carved newel-posts to stairs. Several original timber chimneypieces. Original timber-panelled doors and window furniture.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPOSTS AND UPSTANDS: ashlar-coped rubble boundary wall. Art Nouveau wrought iron gateposts and upstands.

Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some small casements. Greenish graded slates. Corniced stacks with cylindrical cans.