Manse, 16 Cramond Glebe Road, Cramond, Edinburgh

1745; extended circa 1770; repaired and altered by William Burn, 1828; altered and extended by David Bryce, 1857; further additions by John Watherston, 1890. Original 2-storey with basement, 3-bay house at centre with S entry, piended roof and central pair of arched linked stacks. Taller 2-storey with basement and attic, 3-bay back wing with N gable forming T-plan in later 18th century. Single storey parallel wing and W porch added to S front 1857. Random cream rubble sandstone; tooled quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to openings; raised and polished sandstone dressings; chamfered windows. Single storey, U-plan former stable block to NE: harl-pointed random rubble sandstone; droved rubble quoins; droved surrounds to openings.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps to entry comprising timber panelled door, lugged and shaped surround in pedimented porch off-set to right of centre. Single windows at basement and ground floors in bay to left; bipartite window at 1st floor. Flat-roofed link in bay to right of entry; single window at ground; single window in bay to outer right; recessed stone panel centred in apex.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: stone-mullioned tripartite window in bay to outer left; single window in bay to outer right; recessed polished sandstone panel centred in apex.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind at ground; single attic windows set in bays to outer left and right; single storey lean-to addition to outer left (store).

E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 1996.

15-pane timber sash and case window to front in bay to outer right; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to remaining openings. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; piended dormer. Coped sandstone apex stack to N; octagonal cans; corniced sandstone ridge-stack to S; circular cans. Pair of painted render coped ridge stacks at centre facing S, linked by arch; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

FORMER STABLES, S ELEVATION: boarded timber door off-set to left of centre E wing; large oculus centred beneath apex. Single garage door centred in W wing; large oculus beneath apex. Boarded timber doors facing courtyard. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES: round-arched coping to random rubble grey sandstone wall to Cramond Glebe Road; polished ashlar gatepiers flanking entrance; cornices; pyramidal caps; wrought-iron gates.