Glenorchy, 1 Glenorchy Road, North Berwick

T Duncan Rhind, 1897. 2-storey villa with alterations, 1930, set in slope, bold design with battered basement. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble; droved ashlar dressings; 4 courses of contrasting cream sandstone banding between ground and 1st floors to front and sides, now stained red.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical, wide gabled advanced bay at left. Doorway (1930) with decorative wrought-iron grille to upper panel. Full-height round tower in re-entrant angle at centre with arrow slit at centre of parapet; moulded 1st floor cill and lintel courses. Transomed tripartite at ground, simplified at 1st floor. Projecting basement and raised ground floor window to right.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone balustraded stairs lead to terrace with rubble walls fronting entrance. Doorway with consoled timber canopy set in roll-moulded surround; segmentally arched fanlight and panelled door with glazed upper panels. Variety of windows some mullioned.

S ELEVATION: set in slope. Irregular openings including stair window.

W ELEVATION: garage doorway to basement (1930). Variety of windows.

Chamfered arrises to main openings. Variety of glazing patterns. 4-pane and plate glass sash windows predominating decorative gutter heads. Timber eaves brackets. Broad, narrow stack between turret and gable to N with deep ashlar coping. Small double roll clay pantiles.

Rubble boundary walls: low parapet to N with semi-circular coping, sweeping up at intervals to coped piers. Glenorchy incised in right gatepier. Back gateway in Arts and Crafts style with voussoir, segmentally arched overflow and coping.