The Shaws, 10 Barnton Avenue West, Edinburgh

The Shaws is a house dating from around 1915, built in the Arts and Crafts style. It is a two-storey house with an attic, set within five bays and displaying an asymmetrical design. The house is rectangular in plan with a prominent gabled bay centrally, and a further advanced bay to the outer left. A stone balustrade sits above the main entrance at first floor level.

The house is constructed of yellow rubble sandstone, with carefully arranged long and short stone surrounds to the windows and doorways, projecting cills, and stugged quoins. A polished string course runs along the eastern elevation, and the rear is gabled. A single-storey, flat-roofed garage is located to the northeast.

The northwest (entrance) elevation features a timber panelled front door, enclosed within a roll-moulded and shouldered surround, a simple frieze, and a projecting cornice. Above the entrance, a stone balustrade leads to a single window at first floor level, with a flat-roofed dormer window directly above. Other windows are irregularly placed to both floors in the advanced bay to the outer left, and a single window is present at ground level to the right of the front door. The advanced central gable incorporates single windows on both floors.

The northeast side elevation is M-gabled, with a timber panelled door in the central bay, and regular window placement at first and second floor levels, to the left and right of the central bay.

The southeast (rear) elevation is eight bays wide, grouped as 1-3-1-3. A gabled bay is advanced to the right of the centre, incorporating tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors defined by stone mullions, with a single window at the apex. A glazed timber door with a bipartite fanlight sits at ground level in the bay to the right of the gabled bay. Other details include single windows to both floors in the remaining bays to the outer right, and to the three bays to the left of centre, with box dormers above. A three-light canted window with a stone balustrade sits on the outer left bay, with a single window at the apex.

The majority of the windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, though smaller windows in the ground floor of the entrance elevation feature four panes. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, with raised stone skews. Stone apex stacks with droved dressings and cornices are present on the northeast and southwest sides, with a central sandstone ridge stack. The original octagonal cans remain in place.

The interior of the house was not inspected in 1996.

Flanking the entrance are stugged sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal stone caps.