13 Tantallon Place, Edinburgh

Circa 1862, style of James Campbell Walker. 2-storey, 4-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan double villa. Squared and snecked rubble with hammer-dressed and polished dressings; chamfered reveals; ashlar mullions. Base course.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrances to 2nd and 3rd bays; 2-leaf panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; consoled cornices above; single windows at 1st floor; slightly advanced and gabled windows to outer left and right bays; bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors, single round-arched gablehead window above. Distinctive use of horizontal banding on advanced bays and quoins.

N ELEVATION: single window at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: single window at 1st floor; attached single storey piend-roofed carriage house with finialled hay-loft door.

E ELEVATION: single storey piend-roofed service wings to outer left and outer right; regular fenestration; secondary entrances at 2nd and 3rd bays, and service wings.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate double-pitched roof; bargeboarded gableheads to advanced bays (with finial at outer left); 2 end stacks and mutual stack; moulded eaves guttering; lead flashing; snowguard to W; finialled 19th century dormer to W; 4 timber gabled and canted dormers to E.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

GATEWAYS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low boundary wall to street, rising to central corniced pair of pedestrian gateways with en suite banding details; pedestrian gateway attached to N; carriage gateway attached to S; rubble mutual wall to E.