Description

Professor Frank Worthington Simon, 1898. Substantial 2-storey and attic 3-bay asymmetrical subdivided villa with single storey service wing to SE. Sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with red polished ashlar dressings. Rounded reveals; lugged gables; ashlar mullions and transoms; corniced stacks.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION_: open gabled timber porch at centre with keystoned moulded arches on returns, roll-moulded round-arched doorway with panelled door, dentilled cornice and semi-circular plate glass fanlight; single windows flanking at ground and 1st floor; rectangular bipartite dormer. Gabled bay to right with 2-storey canted window with half-piend roof; arrowslit in gablehead. Bay to left blank with wallhead raised as gable with tall apex stack. Round corner bartizan with 4-light windows and finialled conical roof corbelled above ground floor to outer left. NW (COLINTON ROAD) ELEVATION: 3-bay; advanced gabled bay at centre with corbelled corner at ground floor to left, narrow window on return, secondary door at ground floor, tall bipartite transomed stair window at 1st floor and small bipartite in gablehead. Bay to right with bipartite window at ground floor. Bay to left with single windows to ground and 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: single storey service wing with half-piend and catslide roof to right, single windows and rectangular bipartite dormer. Broad wallhead stack linked to roof to main elevation behind. Single windows to ground and 1st floor to left.

NE ELEVATION: single windows and secondary door to service wing; wallhead stack to right.

Timber sash and case windows, 6-pane upper sashes and plate glass glazing to lower sashes, some small-pane windows (some replacement windows and secondary glazing to 1st floor). Green slate piend and platform roof with lead flashings; 1 apex and 2 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack. Moulded ashlar skews. Moulded eaves gutter. INTERIOR: central staircase moved to rear of house; tiled vestibule; ground floor drawing room with dentilled cornice and floral frieze. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and NE, low rubble wall with saddleback coiping to front and NW, tall square ashlar corniced gatepiers with ball finials in chamfered corner of Colinton Road and Merchiston Gardens.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809296

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper