Mackenzie House, 9 Kinnear Road, Edinburgh

Mackenzie House, located at 9 Kinnear Road in Edinburgh, is a two-storey and attic, seven-bay house built in 1910 by Ramsay Traquair. It features an asymmetrical design that combines elements of the Scots Renaissance and Arts and Crafts styles, with finialled boat dormers that break the eaves. The exterior is constructed from random rubble with ashlar dressings.

On the north elevation facing Kinnear Road, there is a corniced ashlar porch located in the third bay from the left, which has a boarded timber door to the left and a small window to the right, both in roll-moulded surrounds. Above this porch, a Venetian window provides light to the stairway. To the outer right, there is a two-storey lean-to projection with crow-stepped skews. To the right of this, a corniced flat-roofed porch features a bipartite window facing north and a timber boarded door on the east return. Above this porch, there is a shaped, finialled gable with a scrolled skewputt and a mullioned and transomed window that lights the stair.

The south elevation, which faces the garden, is symmetrical with advanced shaped-gabled outer bays that contain three-storey canted windows. The four inner bays are regularly fenestrated.

On the east side elevation, there is a single gabled bay to the right, which is connected to a single-storey piend-roofed extension. This elevation also features a timber-boarded door topped with a boat-shaped pediment.

Inside, the hall and stair are decorated with impressed plasterwork featuring an EA monogram, thistles, and a Homeric profile. The original timber banisters and carved newel-posts remain intact on the stairs, along with several original timber chimneypieces and timber-panelled doors with original window furniture.

The property is enclosed by an ashlar-coped rubble boundary wall, complemented by Art Nouveau wrought iron gateposts and upstands. The windows are fitted with small-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, with some small casements. The roof is covered with greenish graded slates, and there are corniced stacks with cylindrical cans.