Craigiebield House Hotel, 50 Bog Road, Penicuik

Craigiebield House Hotel is a large villa dating from 1883 to 1885, designed by George Washington Browne in a predominantly Shavian Old English style, with Gothic and Arts and Crafts details. The building is now in use as a hotel.

The villa is two storeys and has an attic, and is set over a pink sandstone base. The stonework is squared and snecked, with polished chamfered margins. A base course and cavetto-moulded eaves course are present, along with long and short quoins. Stone mullions and transoms are used throughout.

The northwest (principal) elevation has three bays and includes steps and a coped wall leading to the central ground-floor doorpiece. This features a pointed arch, a shouldered door with a decorative hoodmould, blocked stops and a vesica fanlight in a trefoil-headed arch. A bipartite window is positioned above the door. An advanced gabled bay to the right contains a four-light window at ground level, with two-light windows on the returns. An advanced, bracketed window is found at the timber-framed first floor, and another similar window in the gablehead, adorned with decorative bargeboards. A canted four-light window is surmounted by a panelled blocking course in the bay to the left at ground level, with a window above it at first floor.

The southwest elevation presents a three-bay facade with regular fenestration at ground level, including a central window with a gabled hoodmould and a bipartite window to the right. A bipartite window sits to the right at first floor, and a pair of windows flank the centre of the attic.

The southeast elevation is partly obscured by later storage additions. A single-storey and attic wing is built out to the right, with a swept-down roof to the left, culminating in a glazed timber door centred in the gablehead. A narrow, two-panel timber door with a multi-pane glazed upper panel occupies a former window opening to the right of centre at first floor, paired with a bipartite window.

The northeast elevation is six bays wide, with a four-bay gable to the right featuring a buttress-inglenook rising to the first floor at the centre and right, topped by a decorative central flue. A shouldered doorpiece shelters a nine-panel timber door and a bipartite plate glass rectangular fanlight to the left at ground level, next to a window in the penultimate bay from the left. A pair of small lancet windows with hoodmoulds are situated to the right. A tooled square panel with a projecting ashlar block is centrally placed above at the first floor, and a bipartite window is positioned to the left of centre. A pair of windows flank the flue at the gablehead. A two-bay single storey and attic wing is situated to the left, with a tripartite window to the left of centre and a window to the right of centre.

The windows are predominantly sash and case with timber small-pane glazing, featuring some stained glass and leaded lights. The roof is covered in rosemary roof tiles with tiled terracotta ridges, and includes half-timbered, slate-hung dormers at the principal elevation and a pair to the rear. Skylights are also present. Cast-iron rainwater goods feature throughout. The chimney arrangement includes multi-flue gablehead and ridge stacks, as well as a stack breaking the pitch, all topped with circular cans and coped skews.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.