Murrayfield House, 66 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

Murrayfield House, located at 66 Murrayfield Avenue in Edinburgh, dates back to around 1735 and features a classical main block that is three stories high and has five bays. The building is harled with painted margins and strip quoins. Its principal elevation includes a segmental pediment above the doorway, a raised triangular pediment that breaks the eaves above a Venetian window at the center, and urns at the apex and on pedestals with flanking volutes on either side. The roof has skews.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there is a two-leaf panelled timber door with a multi-paned fanlight at the center of the ground floor. Above this, there is a single window on the first floor and a Venetian window on the second floor, which features a keystoned, round-arched central light with boarded flanking lights. The building has windows in all flanking bays across all floors, with the tallest windows at ground level and the shortest on the second floor. The windows are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case glazing. The roof is made of grey slate and has coped gablehead stacks with moulded cylindrical cans.

The northeast wing of the house, built around 1780, is two stories high and has three bays. This symmetrical wing is constructed from snecked and coursed sandstone rubble on the front elevation, with harling on the sides. It features stone margins, a cill course on the first floor, strip quoins, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows on the ground floor are round-arched with infilled heads, while the first floor has large windows in each bay and a blocked Venetian window on the northeast side elevation. This wing also has 12-pane timber sash and case glazing and a grey slate piended roof with lead flashing.

Inside, the building has been sensitively renovated, preserving original features such as fireplaces with pedimented overmantels, cornices, and doorframes throughout. Notable individual features include a panelled cupboard in the front ground floor room at the southwest. A two-storey glazed corridor at the rear southwest links to modern nursing-home buildings that form a square courtyard by re-joining the northeast wing from the rear.