Ierne, Ferryhill Road, North Queensferry

Ierne is a two-storey, three-bay Arts and Crafts house located on Ferryhill Road in North Queensferry, designed by John Alexander Carfrae around 1907. The building has a rectangular plan and is rendered, featuring stone cills and ashlar dormer heads. It has a mansard gable with dormers, long square windows on the ground floor, and a bellcast canted window on the first floor. Notably, the panelled drawing room is a significant feature.

On the principal elevation, there is a central timber panelled door with two small heart-shaped lights, flanked by square windows—three lights to the vestibule on the left and four lights to the dining room on the right. A four-light square window for the drawing room is set back to the far left. The mansard gable includes a three-light bellcast canted window on the first floor to the right, with two breaking eaves mansard-shaped dormers to the left. To the right, there is a single-storey modern flat-roofed extension that was formerly a surgery.

The northeast elevation also features a single-storey modern flat-roofed extension to the left, which was the former surgery. The west (rear) elevation has a central lean-to timber entrance porch with two windows and a door to the right return; there is a window to the left and a small window to the right, along with a tripartite window to the far right. A window is set in the mansard gable on the first floor, with two shallow lead-roofed dormer windows to the right.

The south elevation displays a wide squared and splayed gable, with a ground floor window to the right and two bipartite windows on the first floor. The house predominantly features six-pane sash and case and casement windows with horns, although some lower sash glazing bars have been removed and double glazing has been inserted into the original timber frames. The roof is mansard and platformed, covered with grey slates, and includes flat-headed ashlar skews, a coped rendered south gablehead stack, and circular clay cans.

Inside, the vestibule is oak-panelled. The drawing room boasts original African oak panelling (with some English oak replacement panels) up to picture rail height, a neo-Renaissance oak chimneypiece, and a yellow earthenware tile surround inset with tiles depicting Chinese figures. Above the fireplace is a plasterwork relief of the Tree of Life, and there is a moulded cyma recta cornice. The dining room features an original fireplace with a slender oak chimneypiece and a turquoise tile surround inset with four yellow-ground pink chrysanthemum tiles. The vestibule and principal rooms are fitted with attenuated brass door furniture.