1 Preston Road, East Linton

Circa 1910. 2-storey, L-plan villa with lower gabled stair

block in re-entrant angle, single storey service block

forming court adjoined at rear. Squared and snecked

rubble sandstone 2-storey entrance porch and base

course. White painted harl, red ashlar dressings.

W ELEVATION: entrance to 2-storey canted porch projection

with coped parapet; stair block to left, main gable to

right. Doorway lugged with bolection moulding and blank

square panel above with decorative surround. Window to

left, bipartites with stone mullions to each face at 1st

floor. Single irregular windows at ground and 1st floor

in gable end to right. To left of porch, stair window;

doorway with semi-circular entrance to service court;

decorative railings.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay; roof sweeping down in catslide over

glazed loggia at centre adjoining square projecting

windows in outer bays, rising above eaves of catslide as

piend roofed, tile hung dormers.

E ELEVATION: gable end with windows to right at ground and

1st floor.

Recessed and lower 2-bay wing to left, 2 windows at

ground, windows at 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled

dormerheads with roll moulded ashlar surrounds and apex

finials (1 missing). Crowstepped gable end to N.

Piend roofed single storey service wing at rear.

Period glazing; multi-pane casement windows to loggia

and bays, quasi-Venetians to projecting bays at ground.

Sash and case windows to sides and rear; 12-pane

glazing pattern.

Red tiles. Ashlar coped gable wallhead stacks, that to E

intercepting skew to left of gablehead.

Harled end stacks with ashlar coping.