Garthill House, 10 Ferryhill Road, North Queensferry

Circa 1898. 2-storey, attic and basement plain asymmetric-plan Arts and Crafts villa with piended and corbelled entrance tower. Rendered; stone cills, ashlar dressings; crowsteps.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced 3-stage square-plan entrance tower off-centre right rising above roofline of main block; central window to ground floor and 3rd stage; timber panelled door with moulded architrave and entablature to right return. Ground floor window to right of tower; 1st floor breaking eaves dormer window above. Single storey lean-to corridor link with 5 windows to left of tower; 5 square 1st floor windows above. Slightly advanced gable end to left of corridor link; single storey service wing projecting W from gable at ground floor, contained behind high coped L-plan wall stepping down to N; 1st floor window to right.

S ELEVATION: doorway to left (former window); window to right; all behind lean-to glazed and rendered modern conservatory at ground floor. 1st floor window to right.

E ELEVATION: basement in ground falling to N. Central French doors with sidelights and fanlights opening onto raised patio, steps to right with decorative iron railing; quadripartite windows above; central rectangular timber dormer window to attic floor with slate cheeks. Canted inglenook bay to left of French doors with small windows to canted sides; 1st floor window above; small attic window to nepus gable above. Large window to far left; 1st floor rectangular breaking eaves dormer window above. Ground floor tripartite window to advanced gable to far right; 1st floor window to centred above; small 1st floor window to left of advanced gable.

N ELEVATION: 4-bay with single storey service wing to left. Timber boarded basement door to left. 3 ground floor windows to left; bipartite window to right. Asymmetric nepus gable off-centre to left with 2 1st floor windows; 2 rectangular breaking eaves dormer windows to right. Lean-to porch to far right, window, timber boarded door to right return; scullery, washhouse and stores farther right

15-, 12- and 9-pane timber sash and case windows. Pitched roofs (dormer roof to tower); grey slates, crowstepped skews; beaked skewputts; coped ashlar and rendered gablehead and nepus gable stacks; circular clay cans.

INTERIOR: double-height hall and billiard room with adjacent inglenook; former drawing room with pilastered archway; original doors and door furniture.

BOUNDARY WALLS and GATEPIERS: random rubble wall with ashlar copes to W (along Ferryhills Road); timber boarded door inserted to left of square-plan ashlar gatepiers with lintel inscribed above 'GARTHHILL'; random rubble wall to E with snaps, dressed rubble archway to N leading to lower garden.