Jeffrey House, 13 Kinnear Road, Edinburgh

Alexander Paterson, 1899. 2-storey and attic asymmetrical Arts and Crafts house. Corniced windows to ground floor. Swept roofs with bracketed eaves; kneelered skews to gables. Squared and snecked pink Corncockle sandstone with red Locharbriggs dressings.

N (KINNEAR ROAD) ELEVATION: advanced crowstep-gabled bay to outer left with oriel window. Mullioned and transomed stair window to left with leaded glass and carved panel above dated 1899; single storey polygonal flat-roofed extension below. Timber-boarded door off-centre left with circular astragalled window and small-pane-glazed fanlight above in pedimented roll-moulded surround. Flat-roofed 3-storey bay to outer right with small bi- and tri-partite windows. Mullioned and transomed stair window to right with carved panel above (Homeric profile and EABB); polygonal flat-roofed extension below dormer.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: bowed bay to outer left with segmental-pedimented dormer to swept conical roof. Narrow 3-storey gabled bay to outer right; Gabled bay to right with Venetian window to gable and 2-storey canted bay below. Tripartite dormer to roof.

E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: modern linking blocks adjoining. Bowed bay to E with finialled semicircular roof.

INTERIOR: original carved timber banisters and newel-posts to stairs. Several original timber chimneypieces.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPOSTS: red sandstone rubble boundary wall with ashlar coping. Art Nouveau wrought iron gateposts.

Predominantly small-pane glazing to upper sashes, plate glass to lower in timber sash and case windows; leaded glass to stair windows. Graded greenish slates. Corniced sandstone stacks with cylindrical cans.