Shepherd House, 45 Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk

Circa 1710. 2-storey 3-bay house with single storey

wings and porch added later. Harled with painted ashlar

dressings; chamfered arrises.

N ELEVATION: gabled ashlar and harl porch at centre;

2-leaf panelled doors; windows in flanking bays and to

each bay at 1st floor. Slightly recessed outer wings,

each with window, flat roof to W wing, piend roof to E.

S ELEVATION: door at centre; windows in flanking bays

and each 1st floor bay. Modern conservatory addition to

W wing, door and window to E wing.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: single storey wings abutting

retaining walls at ground, with door and small window in

E wing; curvilinear gables with ashlar coping and

scrolled skewputts; 2 1st floor windows to W gable, and

attic window to both.

12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Grey

slates, swept eaves; slate hung swept dormers to S,

added circa 1950, with casement windows; skylight to

both pitches. Corniced end stacks with cans retained.

INTERIOR: stone scale and platt stair with wrought-iron

balustrade to upper sections; ashlar door surround with

chamfered arrises at foot of stair. 18th century dado

panelling; decorative plaster cornices.

RETAINING WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: rubble walls

retaining island site, with stretches of ashlar coping;

ashlar gatepiers. Wrought- and cast-iron gates with

simple overthrow bearing lamp bracket.