Wadingburn, 6 Wadingburn Road, Lasswade

This is a mid-19th century house of an eclectic style, situated at 6 Wadingburn Road, Lasswade. The house is two storeys with an attic, featuring an irregular plan of five bays, incorporating a Continental-style corner tower to the left and an Elizabethan-style bay to the right. Significant additions have been made to the rear (southwest), including a detached garage complex.

The exterior is primarily grey snecked, bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. The Elizabethan-style bay is built of ashlar sandstone, while the rear elevation combines stugged sandstone, partial harling, and fully harled areas. A coloured tile band runs along the ground and first floors, with further band courses between floors. An eaves course is bracketed, bossed, and banded, while the right-hand bay has a chamfered mullion, string course, and cornice. Dormers are finished with decorative, pierced bargeboarding, and the corners are quoined.

The main (northeast) elevation features a centrally positioned, square-plan entrance porch with a glazed and timber panelled design. The porch is highlighted by a raised, carved architrave with a carved consoled cornice and arched blocking course, topped with a timber-panelled door and rectangular fanlight. A bipartite window is recessed on the first floor, and a connecting long window sits between the attic dormers. To the left of centre is an advanced bay with a framed, round-arched panel and deeply carved surround at first floor, above which is a canted three-light dormer window. The corner tower, to the far left (east angle), is polygonal and tapers slightly on the first floor, with a fish-scaled apron between floors, a swept faceted roof, and a weather vane above. A further canted three-light bay is positioned to the right of centre, topped with a dormer window. An advanced four-light canted bay sits on the extreme right, again with a dormer window above.

The garden (southeast) elevation is partially gabled and features two bays, with the corner tower set to the right. An advanced five-light canted bay window is at ground level, with a framed tile and painted surround above it on the first floor. Windows are present on each floor in the bay to the right of centre, and decorative pierced bargeboarding tops the gable. A recessed and framed star motif adorns the gablehead. An extensive conservatory, built of timber, glass, and dwarf sandstone walls, extends from the east angle, incorporating a lean-to section along a set-back addition and a projecting hexagonal section with a central, hexagonal, louvered vent and a spike finial and weather vane.

The windows utilize a variety of glazing patterns, including timber sash and case windows, casements, and leaded windows. The roof is predominantly grey slate, with a swept fish scale roof over the tower and slate dormers. Pierced red clay ridge tiles are present, along with ashlar coped wallheads and gableheads, some barleysugar stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Gatepiers and boundary walls are constructed of chamfered square-plan sandstone piers with flattened pyramidal ashlar caps, connected by stugged, coped quadrant walls. Boundary walls consist of sandstone rubble with a shaped rubble cope and regularly placed interval stones.