Hillwood, 12 Lasswade Road, Loanhead

Circa 1865, extended circa 1914. Single and 2-storey, irregular-plan house with bowed end walls. Harled and painted walls; plain margins; polished ashlar base and band course, ashlar rybats. Overhanging eaves.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: arched doorway off-centre right, half-glazed storm doors, semi-circular glazed fanlight; advanced bay, central 4-pane window, flanking French windows to left; advanced 4-light bay, 4-pane window to right; small 4-pane window to right.

S ELEVATION: central 2-storey bay: French door to left, paired 4-pane windows to ground floor, tetrapartite bay window to 1st floor, semi-conical roof. Gabled bay to outer left: tripartite window to ground floor, band course, tetrapartite window to 1st floor, plain bargeboards. Bay to outer right: lean-to timber conservatory, central window, door flanking, enclosed returns; piended dormer above.

N AND W ELEVATIONS: irregular mixture of gables and bows housing kitchen, pantry, etc.

Mixture of hinged timber casement windows, 4-pane / 6-pane sash and case, French doors and roof-lights. Dark grey slate piended and semi-conical roof.

INTERIOR: original features existing: tiled mosaic floor; oak parquet floors; wood and carved stone fire-surrounds; ornate cornices; walnut and rosewood doors; slate shelving in larder; stone bins in wine cellar; coomb ceilings to upper floor. Billiard room: 1917, large rectangular gallery, corner open fireplace, coombed ceiling, large 16-pane glazed roof light.

TIMBER SUMMERHOUSE: 1917 (former painting studio of Sir William MacTaggart): rectangular timber studio, verandah; panelled interior.

GLASSHOUSE: rectangular timber greenhouse; integral rainwater tank (houses 100 year old vine).