Carrington House, Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh

Carrington House, located at Fettes College on Carrington Road in Edinburgh, was designed by David Bryce between 1871 and 1872 and later enlarged in 1892. A new window was added by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in 1895, and the interior underwent renovation by A F Balfour Paul in 1936. The building was restored after a fire by Anderson Kininmonth and Paul in 1963.

This two-storey and attic residential block features a rambling plan in a restrained Baronial style, including a lower two-storey wing. It is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and includes base and string courses. The windows have stone mullions and transoms at intervals, with a variety of architraved and styled surrounds. The house master's accommodation is located to the east, with an entrance in an advanced gabled bay that has chamfered corners and a jettied gablehead, featuring a hoodmoulded pointed arch door. The entrance to the student house is in a recessed gabled bay at the right, with a rectangular fanlight above a stone lintel.

The low two-storey wing on the outer right consists of three gabled bays, with a single window on each floor at the center and two windows on each floor in the outer bays. Gablehead stacks are detailed similarly at the rear. There is a single-storey projection at the rear of the main block and a metal fire escape. The south elevation includes a canted bay with a gablehead and a curved mitre above, along with a single-storey canted bay projecting at ground level. Decorative timber barge boarding is retained at the gablehead, along with two attic dormers that break the eaves.

The windows are sash and case, featuring both plate glass and small-pane glazing patterns. The building has heavily corniced ashlar stacks and broad panelled stacks, covered with grey-green slates, and some gablet crowsteps are present on the house master's house.

Inside, the study rooms are arranged around a galleried hall with a gabled lantern in the lower two-storey wing. There is a boarded dado at ground level and sliding doors, along with a barley sugar timber balustrade and turned colonettes. The senior dormitory features wainscot-high boarded timber cubicle divisions and cast-iron columns.