Slateford

Dated 1863. 2-storey house, 3 bay, with Tudor details. Grey-brown sandstone rubble, coursed and snecked to front elevation, random to sides and rear, dressings broached and droved in ashlar and flush except for raised sills on gable and rear.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3 bays. Central bay advanced with deep chamfer, corbelled below eaves; door central, 4-panelled, letterbox fanlight, droved chamfered ashlar surround, hoodmoulding; 1st floor breaking eaves in tympan gable, central window, moulded skews and skewputts, crowned by small stack. Central bay flanked on E by tripartite window with hoodmoulding, to W by projecting bay window with flat roof, cornice and blocking course; 2 flanking 1st floor windows breaking eaves in gabled dormerheads with moulded skews and skewputts, dormerheads decorated with trefoil carvings.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: off-centre gabled outshot to E projects at right angle; single storey with loft, single window to W, 1 large and 1 small window to E, 1 window to loft in gable. Lean-to adjoins to W, piended, incorporating 1 window and rear door, framed and lined with tripartite fanlight. To 1st floor, 1 narrow window and 2 breaking eaves symmetrically towards gables in gabled dormerheads with moulded skews and skewputts.

E AND W ELEVATIONS (GABLES): each with 2 windows to ground floor, towards rear. Sheds/kennels adjoin to W gable, 4 doors, much altered.

Windows timber sash and case, 4-pane to front and main gables, though 2-pane when narrow, assortment of 12-pane, 9-pane, 8-pane and small 4-pane to rear. 6-pane iron stairlight on rear roofslope. Roof in graded grey Scotch slate, coped ashlar stacks, original cans octagonal decorative.