Hawthorne Brae, 46 The Causeway, Duddingston, Edinburgh

Circa 1820 with mid and late 19th century additions to side and rear. 2-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay, gabled, Classical villa with swept steps to columned and balustraded porch, canted dormers, curvilinear gables and lower piend-roofed wing to E with bargeboarded canted dormer. Polished ashlar to front elevation and gables; squared, coursed sandstone to sides and rear Base course; ground floor cill course; eaves cornice; blocking course. Raised pilaster quoins to front elevation; raised window margins; projecting cills.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: S (principal) elevation with advanced central entrance bay; swept balustraded steps distyle Tuscan order porch surmounted by balustraded stone balcony with urn finials; timber-panelled front door in round-arched margined architrave with plate glass fanlight; bipartite window at 1st floor; blind tablet with curved top above at parapet; round-arched leaded dormer to attic. Piend-roofed canted dormers to outer bays. W elevation with mid 19th century corniced canted windows: single storey to right with ball finials; 2-storey to left.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal clay cans.

INTERIOR: good interior features including bow-ended former dining room at ground with buffet recess; timber staircase with ornately carved newel and balusters. Some original cornicing and one original timber chimneypiece.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: chamfered gatepiers to SE and SW with round arch capstones. Wrought-iron gates. Coped rubble boundary wall.