Teviot House And Stable Block, St Dennis And Cranley School, 2 Spylaw, Edinburgh

Teviot House and Stable Block, located at 2 Spylaw, Edinburgh, is a villa built around 1875. This two-storey and attic, three-bay rectangular-plan villa features lower rear wings and a stable block to the northwest. The building is constructed of cream sandstone with an ashlar front, while the rear and sides are made of squared and snecked stugged rubble, accented with ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a string course above the ground floor that is banded at the sides, an eaves cornice, and roll-moulded reveals to the bay windows. The front elevation includes architraved windows, chamfered reveals on the sides, rusticated quoins, and a channelled ground floor.

The southeast (front) elevation showcases a central Roman Doric porch with a balustrade, featuring a round-arched pilastered and keystoned doorpiece with sidelights, a two-leaf panelled door, and a semi-circular fanlight leading to a tiled vestibule. Above this is a single window at the first floor. To the left, there is a full-height canted window with a half-piend roof, while the right bay is slightly advanced and contains tripartite windows at both the ground and first floors.

The southwest elevation is two bays wide, with a full-height canted ashlar window with a half-piend roof on the right and a small dormer in the roof. The left bay has single windows. The northwest (rear) elevation features a two-storey L-shaped rear wing with a wallhead stack and piend roof, along with a square single-storey outbuilding with a piend roof that forms a courtyard. The wallhead of the main block is raised between shouldered wallhead stacks, with two single windows.

On the northeast elevation, there is a fire escape stair and two single windows on the ground and first floors to the left, along with a small dormer in the roof. The stable block is constructed of squared and snecked stugged rubble and is a single storey with a hayloft in an L-plan configuration. It includes a timber carriage door and windows above that break the eaves, both topped with half-piend roofs.

The windows throughout the property are timber sash and case with four-pane glazing. The roofs are covered with Scottish slate, featuring piend and platform styles with lead flashings. There are three wallhead stacks, two of which are corniced central stacks, and ornamental gutterheads.

The property is enclosed by a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping at the rear and northeast, a low rubble wall with saddleback coping at the front, and plain cast-iron railings with pedestrian and carriage gates that are later replacements. The interior was not seen in 1992.