Guard House, Redford infantry barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

A single-storey and attic, 3-bay guard house by Harry B Measures, built between 1909 and 1915 with a veranda supported on cast iron columns to the principal northeast elevation and a 2-bay flat-roofed wing to the southwest. The building is of dark, coursed rock-faced rubble with pale ashlar dressings and the windows have projecting cills. The rear elevations have small, high, rectangular windows. The majority of the windows to the ground floor have vertical metal bars.

The principal elevation to the northeast has a central entrance door and there are 6 windows to the left. There is a pair of large gabled dormers to the attic, both with Diocletian windows.

The glazing is mostly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows.

The interior was seen in 2016. There has been some modification to the interior to provide modern guard facilities. There is one large, brick-lined room with windows at a high level and a corridor with former cells remains.

The pair of tall, rock-faced gatepiers are situated to the immediate northeast of the guard house and are cylindrical with ball caps and an arcaded details below a cornice. They have flanking curved quadrant walls with flat coping between raised corniced piers with ball caps. There are 2-leaf cast iron gates and pedestrian gates to the sides.

A row of cast iron railings with some wider pillars with hexagonal baluster heads stretches along the roadside northeast from the guard house to the later entrance to the barracks and southwest to Inchdrewer House (listed at category B, LB30212).