Ierne, Ferryhill Road, North Queensferry

John Alexander Carfrae, circa 1907. 2-storey, 3-bay Arts and Crafts rectangular-plan house. Rendered; stone cills; ashlar dormer heads. Mansard gable and dormers; long square windows to ground floor; bellcast canted window to 1st floor. Panelled drawing room is of note (see Notes).

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central timber panelled door with 2 small heart-shaped lights; flanking square windows (3-lights to vestibule left, 4-lights to dining room right). 4-light square window to drawing room set back to far left. Mansard gable with 3-light bellcast canted window to 1st floor right; 2 breaking eaves mansard-shaped dormers to left. Single-storey modern flat-roofed extension to right (former surgery).

N ELEVATION: single-storey modern flat-roofed extension to left (former surgery).

W (REAR) ELEVATION: central lean-to timber entrance porch with 2 windows, door to right return; window to left; small window to right; tripartite window to far right. 1st floor window set in mansard gable; 2 shallow lead-roofed dormer windows to right.

S ELEVATION: wide squared and splayed shaped gable; ground floor window to right; 2 bipartite 1st floor windows.

Predominantly 6-pane sash and case and casement windows with horns (some lower sash glazing bars removed and double glazing inserted into original timber frames). Mansard and platformed roof; grey slates; flat-headed ashlar skews; coped rendered S gablehead stack; circular clay cans.

INTERIOR: vestibule: oak-panelled. Drawing room: original African oak panelling (with some English oak replacement panels) to picture rail height; neo-Renaissance oak chimneypiece; yellow earthenware tile surround inset with tiles of Chinese figures; plasterwork relief of Tree of Life above fireplace; moulded cyma recta cornice. Dining room: original fireplace with slender oak chimneypiece, turquoise tile surround inset with 4 yellow-ground pink chrysanthemum tiles. Attenuated brass door furniture to vestibule and principal rooms.