Poldrait, Preston Road, Linlithgow

1. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan villa with Scottish 17th century style details. Squared, snecked and stugged sandstone rubble. Base course, chamfered arrises to single windows, roll-moulded reveals to remaining windows.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: ashlar single storey projecting porch to centre with round-arched doorpiece, keystone, banded and roll-moulded, panelled door, balustraded parapet above. Gabled bay above with single window. Taller gabled bay to left, rectangular projection to left with stop-chamfered angles, bipartite window with roll-moulded reveals, stone piended roof. Single windows to remaining bays.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to left with full-height canted window with roll-moulding, cipher panel to gablehead. 4-light rectangular projection to right with balustraded parapet. Bipartite window above with corniced and pedimented dormerhead.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 bays to right and centre, lower gabled service wing to left. Bowed window set in re-entrant angle at ground. Tripartite, transomed and mullioned stair window above with leaded pattern glazing and stained glass.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: M-gabled, 3-bays bridged at centre by single window at 1st floor.

INTERIOR: encaustic tiles to vestibule. Fine pasterwork, cornices ratained. Geometric rigbed plasterwork to drawing room to SW corner. Amnerican pine panelled doors and dadoes. Dog-leg stair with timber balustrade. Archway with panelled soffit in hall to N.

OUTBUILDING: tabled outbuilding to rear, altered and extended as garage.

GATEPIERS AND GATES: 3 ashlar piers, prymadial caps with ball finials flanked by snecked sandstone quadrant walls, iron gates.