Ferry Craig, Ferry Road, North Queensferry

Ferry Craig, Ferry Road, North Queensferry

Ferry Craig is a two-storey, five-bay Arts and Crafts house designed by Henry F Kerr and dated 1901. The building has a near-rectangular plan and is rendered with part-tiled red Rosemary tiles and rendered stone cills. It features a distinctive conical-roofed tower, a central glazed porch, a timber horizontal balustraded balcony, box windows, and prominent snecked and coursed rubble splayed chimneystacks. The roof is covered in red Rosemary tiles.

The principal south elevation contains the central recessed section with the full-height conical-roofed tower to the left, which has a red sandstone dentilled cornice and lead finial. The glazed porch features plain rose motif stained glass in the upper transom lights, a rendered base, and timber and glazed doors. The porch encloses a central canted tripartite window with an entrance door to the right and a small window at the base of the corner tower to the left. The floor is laid with black and white tiles. Above the porch is a horizontal timber balustraded balcony with a narrow door to the tower on the left and a large four-light Diocletian window with stained glass to the right. The central section is flanked by advanced gable-fronted bays with three-light box windows to both ground and first floor levels, with a tiled section between floors and a tiled jettied gable above. Two three-light ground floor canted oriel windows are located to the left, with a three-light shallow box window at first floor level below a tiled and bargeboarded gablehead.

The east elevation features a two-bay gable to the right with first-floor level tiling. Two ground floor windows are positioned to the right, with the left-hand window being smaller. A full-height slightly advanced shouldered and splayed breaking eaves chimneystack stands to the left of the gable end, flanked by a canted inglenook with windows that have bracketed and tiled ridges above. A small first-floor window is located to the right of the stack, and a first-floor canted three-light bay window is centred below a jettied gable to the right. The gablehead is rendered and bargeboarded with a scrolled cartouche dated 1901.

The north (rear) elevation contains four ground floor windows of varying sizes and a timber door in the penultimate bay to the right. Three first-floor windows are positioned towards the centre, with the far right window breaking the eaves. Two wallhead chimneystacks break the eaves, with the left stack partially tiled at first-floor level.

The west elevation features a two-bay gable to the left with a ground floor window positioned off-centre to the left and a three-light canted bay window to the far right. Two timber-framed and bracketed first-floor windows are centred under the gablehead, with wallhead stacks flanked by overhanging eaves.

The windows are predominantly four- and six-pane timber sashes above a lower plate glass section. Modern metal replica windows have been installed to the south first-floor windows. The pitched roofs are covered with red Rosemary tiles, and the bargeboarding is decorated with large rivets. The eaves are bracketed, with four corniced wallhead stacks, one small corniced gablehead stack to the west, and a central corniced stack to the south elevation. Circular clay cans are present.

The interior contains a former half-timbered billiard room to the east with timber ceiling beams, an arched inglenook, and a mahogany mantelpiece with a classical over-mantel. The ground floor dining room to the west has architraved alcoved bay windows. A double-height hall features a Neo-classical style fireplace and a timber balustraded staircase facing the front elevation. A small cloakroom on the middle landing retains an original semi-circular handbasin. The upper landing has arches, consoles, and two round plaster cartouches depicting art and music. The former drawing room on the first floor to the east displays Adam-revival plasterwork to the ceiling and includes a built-in window bench.