14 Niddrie Cottages, Newcraighall Road, Edinburgh

Alexander Allan, 1912. Marshalled group of 5 traditional single storey and attic, semi-detached and terraced former miners? cottages, with single and 2-storey bathroom/stair projections to rear. Local yellow brick with sandstone mullions, curved, refractory brick cills, 1 harled gabled end. Gabled bipartite dormers, flanking swept-roof dormers. Segmental arched lintels.

TERRACED COTTAGES: block to E comprising 4 properties. Mirrored 6-bay terrace with paired doors flanked by bipartite windows to each side; gabled dormers above bipartite windows. Single storey, piend-roofed projections to rear.

SEMI-DETACHED COTTAGES: 4 mirrored pairs, each with 5-bay elevation of single window at centre, doors in flanking bays and bipartite windows in outer bays. Gabled dormers over bipartite windows and swept-roofed dormers over single windows. Rear elevation of each cottage with 2-storey piend-roofed wing and lean-to single storey projection. Original timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower, retained in large part; some plate glass upper sashes instated and some modern replacements. Panelled doors (some modern) with small-pane fanlights over moulded timber lintel. Grey slate roofs with timber bargeboards to dormers. Brick stacks to mutual gables and gable ends.