East And West Muirend House, 33 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh

East and West Muirend House is a large, asymmetrical villa built between 1897 and 1898 by Hippolyte Jean Blanc, with alterations and extensions made at the northeast corner by John Butters in 1908. The house is two stories with an attic, featuring a harled exterior and half-timber elements that contribute to its picturesque outline.

The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, includes a single-storey porch supported by a stone Doric angle column. The porch has a bipartite design and a parapet that rises at the corners, ending in ball finials. The first floor features a three-light window flanked by lower lights, with an oversailing attic that has a bipartite window set in a half-timbered gable.

On the south elevation, there is a broad half-timbered gable to the right, above a single-storey canted bay. The first floor has another three-light window, with an oversailing attic bipartite above it. The central section has a piended roof and asymmetrically placed bipartite windows that connect to an octagonal three-storey angle turret bay topped with a prismatic roof on the left.

To the north, there is a single-storey and attic setback outshot from the main block, along with a further single-storey piended wing featuring a gablet front on the extreme left. The main roof has three catslide bipartite dormers on its west slope, and there is a piended single-storey block to the north. The roofs are tiled, with overhanging bracketed eaves, decorative barge boards at the gables, and tall battered chimney stacks. Most windows have astragalled upper sections only.