Carrington House, Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh

David Bryce, 1871-1872; enlarged, 1892, new window by Sir

Robert Rowand Anderson, 1895, interior renovation, A F

Balfour Paul, 1936, and restored after fire, Anderson

Kininmonth and Paul, 1963. 2-storey and attic rambling

plan restrained Baronial, residential block, including

lower 2-storey wing. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble

with ashlar dressings. Base and string courses. Stone

mullions and transoms at intervals; variety of architraved

and mannered surrounds to windows. House master's house to E,

with entrance in advanced gabled bay with chamfered corners

and jettied gablehead; hoodmoulded pointed arch door.

Entrance to student house in recessed gabled bay by re-

entrant angle to right; rectangular fanlight above stone

lintel. Low 2-storey wing to outer right comprised of 3

gabled bays single window to each floor at centre and 2

windows to each floor in outer bays; gablehead stacks;

detailed similarly at rear. Single storey projection to main

block at rear. Metal fire escape. Canted bay to S elevation

with gablehead with curved mitre above; single storey

canted bay projecting at ground; decorative timber barge

boarding retained to gablehead and 2 attic

dormers breaking eaves.

Sash and case windows: plate glass and small-plane glazing

patterns. Heavily corniced ashlar stacks, broad stacks

panelled. Grey-green slates. Gablet coping to skews. Some

gablet crowsteps to house master's house.

INTERIOR: study rooms around galleried hall with gabled

lantern in lower 2-storey wing; boarded dado at ground

and sliding doors; barley sugar timber balustrade and

turned colonettes. Senior dormitory with wainscot-high

boarded timber cubicle divisions; cast-iron columns.