Boswall House, 19 Boswall Road, Edinburgh

Boswall House, located at 19 Boswall Road in Edinburgh, was built around 1828 and has undergone later alterations, including redevelopment in 1965. This two-storey villa, with part attic, features a fine austere classical design and is part of a themed group of three linked villas. The exterior is made of lightly droved sandstone ashlar and squared and coursed sandstone, with ashlar dressings on the sides and rear. It includes a base course, blocking courses, and an eaves cornice.

The south elevation, which is the principal front, has a taller pedimented two-storey and attic bay that is recessed in the center, flanked by lower two-storey bays with block pediments. A bowed stone porch is set in the recessed center, featuring an entablature and blocking course, with a tripartite entrance that includes fluted Doric columns and two-leaf timber panelled doors topped with a plate glass fanlight. The remaining bays have regular fenestration in recessed panels, with the central window being segmental-headed.

On the north elevation, the rear, there is a pedimented three-storey bay in the center, with a two-storey piend-roofed canted window (which has a modern French door on the ground floor) and a tripartite window in the pedimented gable above. A decorative wrought-iron balcony is present at the first-floor level, with regular fenestration in recessed panels in the flanking bays.

The east and west elevations feature flanking wings with piended roofs on the front (south) side and pedimented gables on the rear, facing east and west.

Inside, there is a classic black marble dining room chimneypiece in the central ground floor room. The sash and case windows on the south elevation have a timber lying-pane glazing pattern, while the center window on the first floor and the rear windows have plate glass. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are low wallhead stacks with circular cans.

The boundary walls, railings, gates, and gatepiers include low ashlar walls at the front with a base course and ashlar coping. There is a high coursed sandstone rubble wall with arched coping along Lower Granton Road. The later decorative wrought-iron railings, designed in 1913, along with gates and paired cast-iron gateposts, are continuous across the three villas.