25 Croft Street, Penicuik

This is a two-storey, L-shaped former rectory, now used as a residence, dating from 1897 and designed by John Kinross and H O Tarbolton, with later 20th-century additions. It is constructed from tooled, rake-jointed, and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, and features cavetto-moulded arrises around the openings. The gables are crowstepped.

The north-east elevation (the main entrance) has a vertically-boarded timber door to the outer left at ground level, with three narrow windows centred below a crowstepped gable. A vertically-boarded timber-faced addition features a pair of diagonally-boarded garage doors at ground level, flanked by coped sandstone walls. A projecting gable to the left includes a roll-moulded doorpiece with a vertically-boarded timber door, surmounted by a tooled, ogee-moulded panel on the cornice. This panel incorporates a St Andrew's cross shield surmounted by a bishop's mitre and the date '1897', along with pair of Tudor roses. Further along, there are three evenly-spaced ground floor windows, and a pair of cusped and leaded chapel windows at first floor level, with lintels hugging the eaves.

The south-east elevation has a three-bay design with a window above a blank panel, centred at ground level, flanked by bipartite windows. The first floor mirrors this with bipartite windows in each bay. The south-west elevation is five bays wide, featuring a modern conservatory to the right of the centre at ground level; above it is a tall stair window. The remaining bays have windows at ground level, with the penultimate bay from the left being bipartite. The first floor has regular fenestration, with bipartite windows in the penultimate bay from the left and at the outer left. A gable to the right has an oriel window at first floor level.

The north-west elevation is a single bay gable with a window on each floor.

The interior includes a first-floor chapel with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and a variety of decorative fireplaces, including one with an ogee-arched surround, a shield panel, and a deep billetted mantlepiece. There is also a stylised doorpiece with a canted architrave. The building has a mix of multi-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofs with terracotta ridges, and exposed rafter ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods, ridge and gablehead stacks with circular cans, decorative beak skewputts, and a variety of boundary walls made of tooled, squared, and snecked rubble with saddleback coping complete the details.