Laundry, Dalmeny Home Farm, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

Later 19th century. 2-storey, 6-bay asymmetrical plain Tudor laundry building with single storey wing projecting to rear forming approximate T-plan. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone walls with stugged and droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course, mullioned windows with chamfered arrises and sloping cills.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-light window at ground and in gabletted stone dormerhead breaking eaves above; matching fenestration in bays to right and to outer left. Gabled 2-storey entrance porch advanced in bay to left of centre; curved and splayed reveals around 6-panel, 2-leaf timber door with plate glass fanlight; 2-light window at floor above, carved shield centred in gablehead. Single windows at each floor in bay to left of entrance porch.

E GABLE: blank.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 5 bays (grouped 1-3-1); irregularly-fenestrated centre bays; rear wing advanced at left; brick -infilled window at 1st floor in bay to outer left; single window at ground in bay to outer right.

W GABLE: 2-light mullioned window centred at ground only.

REAR WING: W ELEVATION; 3-bay asymmetrical elevation comprising 6-panel timber door with plate glass fanlight in bay to left, modern sliding vertically-boarded timber door at centre, 2-light window in bay to right.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay asymmetrical elevation, 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with glazed panels off-set to right of centre; matching single-leaf door in bay to right; shuttered window in bay to left.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical, single window to right of centre.

Timber sash and case glazing; 8-pane to narrower and mullioned windows; 12-pane elsewhere. Purple-grey slate roofs, piended platform roof to wing; cast-iron rainwater goods. Droved ashlar corniced stacks with circular cans to gables; matching shouldered wallhead stacks to right of centre at N and S elevations, and 6-flue stack to wing with additional cement-rendered and lined stack piercing pitch to E. Droved ashlar skew copes to principal gables and ball-finialled entrance porch and dormerheads.