Sherwood, 28 Redford Road, Edinburgh

Sherwood is a villa dating from 1892 with additions of 1910, attributed to James B Dunn. Further later additions were made to the southwest. The house is approximately an L-shaped single-storey and attic design, with the main entrance on the southeast side. A modern extension and conservatory are located to the left, and a service wing sits to the rear. A single-storey scullery projects from the northwest (rear) elevation, running parallel with the main service wing.

The exterior is characterized by mock half-timbering on the primary elevations, bargeboarded gables, and crowstepped dormers on the northeast side, along with ball-finialled dormers on the southeast. The construction is predominantly bull-faced snecked sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings, incorporating a basecourse to the main elevations.

The southeast (entrance) elevation features a timber-panelled front door with a small canopy and decorative architrave, including long quoins. A small leaded light is positioned to the left of the door, and a three-light window is set into the canted corner of the outshot, which also forms a balcony for the upper floor. A raised parapet with ball finials accents the angles. A two-leaf French door opens onto the balcony, while a gabled quadripartite dormer is to the left. A prominent stack breaks the eaves to the right of the outshot, and a later single-storey outshot with a bipartite window is to the left of the original house, alongside a modern conservatory.

The northeast (road) elevation presents three bays to the left, with an advanced gable created in 1910 above the outer left bay, featuring a bipartite mullioned window on the ground floor and a quadripartite window above. The first floor is corbelled out to the gable. A gabled dormer breaks the eaves to the right. The service wing, which lacks half-timbering, is to the right, and a bay added in 1910 was originally open with column support, later filled in.

The southwest (garden) elevation has two bays, with a later extension and conservatory on the right and a slightly advanced bay from the original house on the left, constructed in 1910. That bay contains a bipartite mullioned window on the ground floor and a quadripartite window above.

The northwest (rear) elevation is irregularly fenestrated with a projecting scullery at ground level and an advanced piended bay to the left. The rear elevation of the service wing also has a dormer breaking the eaves and further irregular fenestration.

The windows are predominantly small-pane timber casements on the first floor and timber sash-and-case with small-pane upper sashes and plate glass or two-pane lower sashes on the ground floor. The chimneys have coped stacks with red clay cans, while the roof is red tile with red ridge tiles.

Inside, the entrance lobby features a mosaic floor and timber panelling to dado height. There's a half-glazed inner door with leaded side-lights. The original fireplaces remain in the dining room and drawing room. Unusual timber-panelled interior doors are throughout, most with decorative brass door plates.

The property is enclosed by a coped, squared and snecked sandstone boundary wall, lower to the southeast with decorative cast-iron railings. Pyramidal-capped gatepiers mark the main entrance, and plain coped gatepiers define the former service entrance.