17-19 Osborne Court, Cockenzie

Dated 1869. 2-storey, irregular 3-bay Scots Baronial house. Squared and snecked cream sandstone rubble, dressings stugged, droved and chamfered. Cornice base course and hoodmould/string course.

W (FRONT) ELEVATION: southmost bay to right advanced and canted with corbelled crowstepped gablehead, tripartite bay window to ground floor, foreshortened to 1st floor, small window in gablehead. Central door, 6-panelled with plain fanlight, under plaque, with 1st floor window breaking eaves in semicircular dormerhead; flanked to left (N) by window to ground floor, foreshortened to 1st floor and breaking eaves in crowstepped dormerhead. NW corner chamfered with corbelled and moulded pepperpot tower, 3 narrow windows, conical roof and finial.

3 unusual narrow timber dormers in roofspace, moulded and gabled.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Centre bay advanced in rounded stair tower (modern addition incorporating some earlier features), harled with door, central stair window and corbelled crowstepped gablehead. Flanking bays in crowstepped gables, windows to 1st floor symmetrical, as are narrow gablehead windows, ground floor window to N bay only.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical 3-bay. 3 windows to ground floor, with string course topping westmost only. 2 windows to outer bays at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: single window to ground floor. Window to 1st floor to E, breaking eaves in crowstepped dormerhead.

Windows mostly timber sash and case, plate glass, recent replacements with horns and vents. Roof with crowstepped gables, graded grey Scotch slates, 2 large gable stacks to W and S, plain cope, cans removed.