East And West Muirend House, 33 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh

Hippolyte Jean Blanc 1897-8, altered and extended

at north east corner by John Butters (Ludlow) 1908.

Large asymmetrical villa of picturesque outline.

2-storey and attic, harled with half-timber features.

East (entrance) elevation has single-storey porch

with stone doric angle column, bipartite, and parapet

upswept at ball-finialled angles. First floor 3-light

with lower flanking lights and oversailing attic with

bipartite in half timbered gable. South elevation has

broad half timbered gable to right over single storey

canted bay, first floor 3-light and oversailing attic

bipartite. Central piended section with asymmetrically

disposed bipartites linking to octagonal 3-storey

angle turret bay with prismatic roof on left. Single-

storey and attic setback outshot from main block

beyond, further single-storey piended wing with gablet

front on extreme left. Three catslide bipartite

dormers, on west slope of main roof. Piended single-

storey block to north. Tiled roofs with over-hanging

bracketed eaves, barge boards at gables, tall battered

stacks. Most windows astragalled at upper sections only.