25 Croft Street, Penicuik

John Kinross and H O Tarbolton, 1897, with 20th century additions. 2-storey, gabled L-plan former rectory, now in residential use. Tooled, rake-jointed and snecked sandstone, with polished ashlar dressings. Cavetto-moulded arrises to openings. Crowstepped gables.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: vertically-boarded timber door to outer left at ground, 3 narrow windows centred at ground, with 3 windows aligned above at 1st floor, centred in crowstepped gable breaking eaves; pair of 2-leaf, diagonally-boarded garage doors in advanced vertically-boarded timber-faced ground floor addition, flanked by coped sandstone walls; projecting gable to left with roll-moulded doorpiece and vertically-boarded timber door to right at ground, surmounted by tooled ogee-moulded panel on cornice, incorporating St Andrew's cross shield surmounted by bishop's mitre, with date '1897', and pair of Tudor roses; return to right with 3 windows evenly spaced at ground, pair of cusped bipartite leaded chapel windows with lintels hugging eaves, at 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay, comprising window surmounted by blank panel, centred at ground, flanked by bipartite windows; bipartite windows in bays at 1st floor.

SW ELEVATION: 5-bay; modern conservatory to right of centre at ground, with tall stair window above; windows in remaining bays at ground, bipartite in penultimate bay from left; regular fenestration to remaining bays at 1st floor, bipartite in penultimate bay from left and at outer left; gable to right with oriel window to left at 1st floor.

NW ELEVATION: single bay gable, with window to left at ground and 1st floor.

INTERIOR: 1st floor chapel with barrel-vaulted ceiling; various decorative fireplaces including chimneypiece with ogee-arched surround and shield, and deep billetted mantlepiece; stylised doorpiece with canted architrave.

Variety of multi-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roofs with terracotta ridges; exposed rafter ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans. Decorative beak skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALLS: tooled, squared and snecked rubble walls, with saddleback coping.