West Court Including Garages And Entrance Forecourt, 25 Kings Road, Longniddry

West Court, including garages and entrance forecourt, is an Arts and Crafts style house located at 25 Kings Road in Longniddry. Designed by Rowand Anderson and Paul & Partners between 1939 and 1940, with Basil Spence as the principal architect and completed by W H Glover, the building is predominantly single-storey with an attic and features an irregular L-plan layout. The house has an asymmetrical pitched roof and a projecting gabled stair bay facing the entrance court. The exterior includes a chamfered ashlar basecourse, harled brick construction, and some artificial stone margins. The entrance is situated in a re-entrant angle and features a single timber door with a diamond pattern set in a chamfered recess, with artificial stone jambs and a cat-slide dormer above. The windows exhibit irregular fenestration with flat-arched openings and cat-slide dormer windows.

The east elevation has five bays, with two bays on the left that are advanced, and includes a two-storey, three-bay return. The central return features a projecting gabled stair bay with a large nine-light window that has cast stone mullions and transoms. The north elevation consists of eight bays, with three bays on the left that are advanced and angled. It includes a two-leaf timber and glazed door on the outer right, framed by a moulded architrave and semi-circular exterior steps. A wide mid-pitch, two-stage brick chimney stack is located at the center, topped with a moulded cope on the first stage. The west elevation has four bays, with a projecting two-storey bay to the left of center (added in 2005) and a tripartite window with artificial stone margins on both floors. A late 20th-century conservatory is situated to the right.

The house features timber-framed casement windows and a steeply pitched roof covered in dark blue and black pantiles, with a flat roof over the projecting bay on the west elevation. The mid-pitch is coped with brick and topped with cylindrical clay cans.

Inside, as seen in 2009, there is an open stairwell with landings and a timber balustrade featuring turned balusters. The principal rooms have large fire surrounds, with stone in the living room and marble in the dining room. Most of the doors are original cedar with wooden latches.

The garages are attached to the south elevation and are internally linked to the house, with an additional garage to the left that was added in 2005 and is stepped back. They feature a shallow-arched opening with two-leaf diagonally boarded timber doors and painted hinges, and have a steeply pitched roof covered in dark blue and black pantiles.

The entrance forecourt is designed with stone setts laid in large circular patterns.