Carrington House, 27 South Oswald Road, Edinburgh

Carrington House is a villa built in 1896 in Edinburgh to a design by Alexander MacNaughton. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular building that has been subdivided into five flats. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Features include a base course, a dividing band course, eaves cornices, and chamfered window reveals.

The north-facing main elevation incorporates a central Italianate tower within the roofline. A recessed tower bay is fronted by an advanced porch with paired Tuscan columns supporting an entablature, topped with a balcony parapet and stone balustrade. A depressed-arched doorway is flanked by paired Tuscan pilasters, leading to a two-leaf panelled door with a plate glass fanlight above. An advanced pedimented window sits above the doorway at the first floor level. The towerhead is raised above the eaves, incorporating round-arched bipartite windows with bracketted cills on the north, east, and west faces. Elaborate scrolled brackets support a deep cornice, and a pyramidal roof is finished with a timber weathervane finial. Single windows are closely spaced on either side of the central bay, with the ground floor windows being segmental-arched and keystoned. An advanced bay with a full-height canted window is located to the outer left, topped with a balustraded parapet. A tripartite window is recessed within an advanced bay to the outer right, with a swept roof and decorative wrought-iron brattishing. A later single-story garage is attached to the outer left and a triple garage to the outer right.

The south-facing rear elevation features a central round-arched tripartite window and a full-height canted window to the outer left. A modern two-story extension is present to the outer right. The building has plate glass sash and case windows, and a grey slate piended roof. Shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks are located to the east and west, with a box dormer on the north side. The original rainwater goods remain, including hoppers and moulded eaves guttering.

The interior features two-leaf vestibule doors with glazed panels, a panelled inner vestibule, decorative timber flooring, an imperial staircase with a timber handrail and balusters incorporating wrought-iron infill, ornate carved newels, a tripartite round-arched stained-glass stairwindow, and panelled doors.

Gatepiers with pedimented caps, decorative wrought-iron gates, an architraved pedestrian gateway bearing the inscription "Carrington House" and a dentilled cornice, and coped rubble boundary and mutual walls are associated with the property.