Gate-Piers And Railings, Gate, Boundary Wall, Garden With Fountain, Starbank House, 17 Laverockbank Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1815 with later additions. 2-storey 3-bay villa with asymmetric single storey wings and (later) 2-storey N wing making T-plan, set in very large landscaped garden, now public park. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Dividing course between ground and 1st floor. Piended roof, very broad eaves.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated. Glazed timber door with pointed-arched fanlight in chamfered hoodmoulded Gothick surround in central bay; window to 1st floor. Pyramid-roofed single storey pavilion with ornate weather vane to left, linked by modern garage. Single storey pitched roofed extension to right, with glazed Gothick panelled door.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated; central tripartite window at ground floor in N wing. Later tile-hung dormer window to attic.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Stone-coped stacks with circular cans.

FOUNTAIN, BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND GATEPOSTS: high coped rubble boundary wall to Laverockbank Road, changing to low coped red sandstone ashlar wall topped by hooped railings to N. Doulton Fountain (vandalised, 1999), with florid Art Nouveau detailing to double basin, scrolled buttresses, circular water container with pyramidal uprights and presentation plaque. Wrought-iron gates and cast-iron gateposts with high quality naturalistic detail.