Laundry, Dalmeny Home Farm, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

This is a late 19th-century laundry building located within Dalmeny Home Farm at Dalmeny House, Edinburgh. The building is asymmetrical in design, originally comprising two storeys and six bays, with a single-storey wing projecting to the rear to form an approximate “T” shape. The walls are constructed from stugged (roughly squared) squared and snecked (randomly sized) sandstone, with dressings also in stugged and droved sandstone ashlar. The windows are mullioned, featuring chamfered arrises and sloping sills.

The north (principal) elevation has a 2-light window at ground level and within a gabletted stone dormerhead which breaks the eaves above. Matching fenestration is present in the bays to the right and to the outer left. An advanced, gabled 2-storey entrance porch is located in the bay to the left of centre. This porch features a 6-panel, 2-leaf timber door with a plate glass fanlight; the reveals are curved and splayed. A 2-light window sits above the door, and a carved shield is centered in the gablehead. Single windows are positioned at each floor in the bay to the left of the entrance porch.

The east gable is blank.

The south (rear) elevation is asymmetrical with five bays grouped as 1-3-1 and is irregularly fenestrated. A rear wing projects at the left; a brick-infilled window is visible at first floor in the outer left bay, and a single window is at ground level in the outer right bay.

The west gable contains a single, 2-light mullioned window at ground level only.

The rear wing’s west elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a 3-bay design. A 6-panel timber door with a plate glass fanlight is in the left bay, a modern sliding, vertically-boarded timber door is at the centre, and a 2-light window is on the right.

The south elevation of the rear wing is also asymmetrical with a 3-bay design. It includes a 2-leaf, vertically-boarded timber door with glazed panels offset to the right of centre, a matching single-leaf door to the right, and a shuttered window in the left bay.

The east elevation of the rear wing has a single window to the right of centre.

The windows are timber sash and case style, with 8-pane glazing in the narrower, mullioned windows and 12-pane glazing elsewhere. The roofs are covered in purple-grey slate, with a piended platform roof on the wing. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present. Droved ashlar corniced stacks with circular cans are situated on the gables. Matching shouldered wallhead stacks are located to the right of centre on both the north and south elevations. The wing has a 6-flue stack which includes an additional cement-rendered and lined stack that pierces the roof pitch on the east side. Droved ashlar skew copes are present on the principal gables, and the entrance porch and dormerheads are ball-finialled.