Southpark, 19 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh

Probably John Chesser, circa 1878. 2-storey, irregular-plan Jacobean villa with service wing and extensive later additions to S and W. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, Base and string courses; long and short quoins; raised window surrounds; chamfered reveals; scrolled crow-stepped gable to entrance bay; tall ridge and gablehead stacks.

N (ENTRANCE) elevation: 5-bay with low service wing recessed to outer right; advanced central entrance bay; architraved and keystoned round-arched doorpiece with stop-fluted banded pilasters and carved consoles supporting cornice and 2 coped dies; 2-leaf panelled door; plate glass fanlight; tripartite window at 1st floor with hoodmould and square blank tablet above; further blank tablet set in gablehead; single window at ground floor in return to W. Advanced tripartite window flanking to left at ground floor, surmounted by cornice and crenellations; 2 single windows above, breaking eaves in pedimented and shaped dormerheads. 2 single windows flanking entrance to right at ground floor; 2 single windows at 1st floor breaking eaves in pedimented and shaped dormerheads.

E ELEVATION: advanced tripartite window to outer left at ground floor, surmounted by cornice and crenellations; 2 single windows above, breaking eaves in pedimented and shaped dormerheads. 3-light bow window surmounted by cornice and crenellations at ground floor to outer right; bipartite window above; blank tablet in gablehead.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay with service wing to outer left; Secondary entrance and single window at ground floor of central bay; tripartite stair window above; outer bays mirrored, with 3-light bow windows surmounted by cornices and crenellations at ground, bipartite windows at 1st floor, and blank tablets in gableheads. Pedimented dormer breaking eaves to service wing. Large 2-storey pebbledashed addition to S.

SERVICE WING: 2-storey, 2-bay service wing to N with 2 single windows at ground floor to outer left, and bipartite pedimented dormer breaking eaves; 2 single windows in advanced gabled bay to outer right. Large single storey brick extension with bull-faced facade attached to W.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate gabled roof; lead flashing; moulded eaves guttering; tall corniced ridge and corbelled gablehead stacks (SW stack truncated); circular moulded cans; some stone finials intact; brackedted skewputts; original rainwater goods, including hopper s and pipe brackets.

INTERIOR: elaborate plaster mouldings throughout; encaustic tiled vestibule; tripartite vestibule door; cast-iron balustrade and oak handrail; original fireplaces with tiled grate surrounds depicting scenes from Scott's novels.

BOUNDARY WALLS: high coped rubble boundary wall to Grange Terrace and Blackford Avenue; 2 pairs of ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles, cornices, and coping to Grange Terrace.