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

Rowand Anderson and Paul & Partners, 1939-40 (Basil Spence principal architect), completed by W H Glover. Predominantly single-storey and attic, irregular L-plan Arts and Crafts style house with asymmetrical pitched roof and projecting gabled stair bay to entrance court elevation. Chamfered ashlar basecourse, harled brick construction, some artificial stone margins. Entrance in re-entrant angle, single timber door with diamond pattern in chamfered recess, artificial stone jambs; cat-slide dormer above. Irregular fenestration; flat-arched openings. Cat slide dormer windows.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5 bays (2 bays to left advanced) with 2-storey, 3-bay return. Projecting gabled stair bay to centre of return with large 9-light window with cast stone mullions and transoms.

N ELEVATION: 8 bays (3 bays to left advanced and angled); 2-leaf timber and glazed door to outer right with moulded architrave and semi-circular exterior steps. Wide mid-pitch, 2-stage brick chimney stack to centre, moulded cope to 1st stage.

W ELEVATION: 4 bays; projecting 2-storey bay to left of centre (1st floor added 2005), tripartite window with artificial stone margins at both floors. Late 20th century conservatory to right.

Timber-framed casement windows. Steeply pitched, dark blue and black pantiled roof; flat roof to projecting bay of W elevation. Coped, brick mid-pitch with cylindrical clay cans.

INTERIOR (seen 2009): open stairwell with landings, timber balustrade with turned balusters. Large fire surrounds to principal rooms (stone to living room, marble to dining room). Predominantly original cedar doors with wooden latches.

GARAGES: abutted to S elevation and internally linked to house; additional garage to left (added 2005), stepped back. Shallow-arched opening with 2-leaf diagonally boarded timber doors and painted hinges. Steeply pitched dark blue and black pantiled roof.

ENTRANCE FORECOURT: stone setts laid in large circular patterns.