Jeffrey House, 13 Kinnear Road, Edinburgh

Jeffrey House, located at 13 Kinnear Road in Edinburgh, is a two-storey and attic asymmetrical Arts and Crafts house designed by Alexander Paterson in 1899. The exterior features corniced windows on the ground floor, swept roofs with bracketed eaves, and kneelered skews on the gables. It is constructed from squared and snecked pink Corncockle sandstone, accented with red Locharbriggs dressings.

On the north elevation facing Kinnear Road, there is an advanced crowstep-gabled bay on the outer left, which includes an oriel window. To the left, a mullioned and transomed stair window with leaded glass is topped by a carved panel dated 1899, and there is a single-storey polygonal flat-roofed extension below. The entrance features a timber-boarded door positioned off-centre to the left, accompanied by a circular astragalled window and a small-pane-glazed fanlight above, all framed in a pedimented roll-moulded surround. On the outer right, a flat-roofed three-storey bay contains small bi- and tri-partite windows, and another mullioned and transomed stair window is located to the right, also with a carved panel above and a polygonal flat-roofed extension below the dormer.

The south elevation, or rear, showcases a bowed bay on the outer left, which has a segmental-pedimented dormer with a swept conical roof. To the outer right, there is a narrow three-storey gabled bay featuring a Venetian window in the gable and a two-storey canted bay below. A tripartite dormer is present on the roof.

The east and west side elevations have modern linking blocks attached. The east side features a bowed bay with a finialled semicircular roof.

Inside, the house retains original carved timber banisters and newel-posts on the stairs, along with several original timber chimneypieces.

The boundary wall is made of red sandstone rubble with ashlar coping, complemented by Art Nouveau wrought iron gateposts. The windows predominantly have small-pane glazing in the upper sashes and plate glass in the lower sections, all within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded greenish slates, and there are corniced sandstone stacks with cylindrical cans.