Deanbank House, 12 Dean Bank Lane, Stockbridge, Edinburgh

Late 18th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay, Classical, piend-roofed villa with pavilion wings extending to rear, forming U-plan (single storey to front; single storey with attics to rear). Coursed sandstone with droved and polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Rusticated quoins to front elevation; regular fenestration with raised ashlar window margins.

FRONT ELEVATION: half-glazed timber-panelled front door with rectangular fanlight, set in pilastered architrave with cavetto splay. Tripartite windows at ground; lean-to single storey pavilions to outer left and right; French door to left pavilion. Urn finials to corners of main house; ball finials to pavilions.

REAR ELEVATION (DEAN BANK LANE): gothick-arched staircase window to centre; 1968 kitchen extension across ground floor by Michael Laird. Ball-finialed, gabled pavilions advanced to left and right with linking screen wall: right pavilion with oculus window to attic; left pavilion heightened (probably 19th century).

INTERIOR: good 18th century interior largely intact. Late 19th century encaustic tiles to entrance hall; stone staircase; some 18th century chimneypieces including fine white marble chimneypiece with neoclassical reliefs in drawing room; attic bedroom chimneypiece with delft-tile insets and hearth. Simple Georgian cornicing and timber panelled interior doors throughout.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with yellow clay cans. Graded grey Scottish slate.

BOUNDARY WALL: high, ashlar-coped sandstone rubble boundary wall.