Sherwood, 28 Redford Road, Edinburgh

Attributed to James B Dunn, 1892; James B Dunn, 1910, additions to NW, NE and SW; some later additions to SW. Single-storey and attic, approximately L-plan villa with main entrance to SE, modern extension and conservatory to left, service wing to rear and single-storey scullery outshot from NW (rear) elevation, parallel with main service wing. Mock half-timbering to main elevations, bargeboarded gables, crowstepped dormers to NE and ball-finialled single-storey entrance outshot to SE incorporating canted window to left and forming balcony to upper floor. Bull-faced snecked sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Basecourse to main elevations.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled front door at right of entrance outshot, small canopy above door, decorative architrave frame with long quoins cutting across recessed moulding; small leaded light to left of door; 3-light window across canted corner of outshot; raised parapet with ball finials above angles. 2-leaf French door to balcony; gabled quadripartite dormer to left. Slightly advanced stack, breaking eaves to right of outshot. Later single-storey outshot with bipartite window to left of original house; modern conservatory to left.

NE (ROAD) ELEVATION: main house 3 bays to left; advanced 1910 gable to outer left, bipartite mullioned window at ground, quadripartite window above, first floor corbelled out to gable only; gabled, bipartite dormer breaking eaves to right. Service wing to right (not half-timbered) with off-centre timber boarded door and crow-stepped dormers breaking eaves. Bay to outer right built 1910, originally open at ground and supported on columns, filled in later.

SW (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 2 bays. Bay to right with later extension and conservatory (see SE Elevation). Bay to left slightly advanced from original house, 1910; bipartite mullioned window at ground; quadripartite window above.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 bays with scullery outshot at ground to centre; advanced piended bay to left; irregularly fenestrated. Rear elevation of service wing to left: dormer to inner bay, breaking eaves; irregular fenestration elsewhere.

Predominantly small-pane glazing in timber casements to 1st floor windows; ground floor windows predominantly timber sash and case with small-pane glazing to upper sashes and plate glass or 2-pane glazing to lower sashes. Coped stacks with some red clay cans. Red tile roofs with red ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: entrance lobby with mosaic floor; timber panelling to dado; half-glazed inner door with leaded side-lights. Original fireplaces in dining room and drawing room. Unusual timber panelled interior doors throughout, most with decorative brass door plates.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: coped, squared and snecked sandstone boundary wall, lower to SE with decorative cast-iron railings. Pyramidal-capped gatepiers to the main entrance and plain coped gatepiers to the former service entrance.