Southpark, 19 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh

Southpark is a large, 2-storey Jacobean villa, likely designed by John Chesser around 1878. It is situated in Edinburgh with a service wing and substantial later additions to the south and west. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, featuring base and string courses, long and short quoins, raised window surrounds, chamfered reveals, scrolled crow-stepped gables, and tall ridge and gablehead stacks.

The north (entrance) elevation has five bays, with a recessed service wing to the far right. A prominent, centrally positioned entrance bay features an architraved, keystoned round-arched doorpiece with stop-fluted banded pilasters, carved consoles, a cornice, and two coped dies. The door is panelled, with a plate glass fanlight above. A tripartite window is located on the first floor, flanked by a hoodmould and a square blank tablet above, with an additional blank tablet set into the gablehead. A single window is present at ground floor level, returning to the west. An advanced tripartite window is positioned to the left at ground floor, topped by a cornice and crenellations, with two single windows above, breaking the eaves in pedimented and shaped dormerheads. Further single windows are found to the right of the entrance at ground floor, mirrored above in dormerheads.

The east elevation mirrors the north side, with an advanced tripartite window at ground floor and two single windows above, again breaking the eaves in ornate dormerheads. A three-light bow window is present at ground floor to the right, with a bipartite window above, and a blank tablet in the gablehead.

The south elevation displays three bays with a service wing to the left. A secondary entrance and single window are at ground floor in the central bay, with a tripartite stair window above. The outer bays are mirrored, incorporating three-light bow windows surmounted by cornices and crenellations at ground floor, bipartite windows above, and blank tablets in the gableheads. A pedimented dormer breaks the eaves of the service wing. A large, two-storey addition, finished with pebbledash, extends to the south.

The two-storey, two-bay service wing to the north has single windows at ground floor and a bipartite, pedimented dormer breaking the eaves. An advanced gabled bay features a single window to the right. A single-storey brick extension with a bull-faced facade is attached to the west.

The building features plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with lead flashing, moulded eaves guttering, and tall corniced ridge and corbelled gablehead stacks; the southwest stack is truncated. Circular moulded cans, some stone finials, bracketed skewputts, and original rainwater goods, including hopper s and pipe brackets, are also present.

The interior is notable for its elaborate plaster mouldings, an encaustic tiled vestibule, a tripartite vestibule door, a cast-iron balustrade with an oak handrail, and original fireplaces with tiled grate surrounds depicting scenes from Sir Walter Scott’s novels.

High, coped rubble boundary walls define the property along Grange Terrace and Blackford Avenue. Two pairs of ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles, cornices, and coping mark the entrance to Grange Terrace.