24 Bog Road, Penicuik

24 Bog Road in Penicuik is a 2-storey Scots baronial house built in 1896 by John Kinross. It features a Z-plan layout and was originally constructed as a manse. The exterior is made of snecked rough-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, and it includes decorative moulded architraves around the openings, an eaves course, long and short quoins, and crowstepped gables.

On the southwest elevation, the house has a 2-bay design with an advanced gabled bay on the left. This bay features a 3-light canted window at ground level, which is corbelled out above in the gablehead, and there are lights to the returns above the eaves. To the right, there is a window at ground level and another window with a gable dormerhead above.

The southeast elevation is predominantly single storey and consists of 4 bays that step up to the centre. The left bay forms a lean-to entrance porch with a door to the return, which includes a vertically-boarded timber service door in the penultimate bay from the right. The remaining bays have windows at ground level, and the penultimate bay on the left has a window with a gable dormerhead. There is also a 2-leaf, 4-panel timber door to the return on the left, topped with a blank tooled tablet and a gablet-coped crowstepped parapet. The outer left features a recessed blank gable.

The northeast elevation has 5 bays, with an advanced gable to the left that sweeps down. This gable includes a narrow light to the right at ground level and a window centred in the gablehead, with a blind return to the right. The gable on the right has a narrow light to the left of centre at ground level and a 3-light canted window with a slate roof to the right at ground level. There are also a narrow light and a window in the gablehead, topped by a bull's-eye window to the left of centre.

The northwest elevation consists of 3 bays, featuring a recessed blank gable to the right and a recessed blind semicircular archway with a keystone, centred at ground level, which has a blank tooled tablet hugging the eaves to the left.

The house has a variety of small-pane timber sash and case windows, graded grey slate roofs with terracotta ridges, and a pair of gabled rectangular dormers with timber barge boards on the northwest side. There are some modern skylights and cast-iron rainwater goods. The gablehead stacks have a battered cope and circular cans.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1999.