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Summary

Description

John McLachlan, 1881. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with Service Wing adjoining to E. Squared and snecked rubble; lighltly stugged ashlar with polished dressings to N (entrance) elevation. Base and dividing band courses; cornice; chamfered reveals.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central keystoned round-arched pilastered doorpiece with carved consoles, cornice and blinded balustrade, serving as mock balcony to 1st floor window with raised lugged surround; 2-leaf panelled doors; plate glass fanlight. Canted 4-light window at ground floor to outer right with ashlar coping above cornice sweeping to smaller canted window at 1st floor with 4 segmental-arched lights. Advaznced corniced tripartite window at ground floor to outer left; scrolled detail at foot of advanced bipartite segmental-arched window at 1st floor. Single storey piended-roof service wing attached to E; bipartite window at ground floor; bipartite round-arched dormer with segmental-arched pediment above.

E ELEVATION: service wing with secondary entrance and single windows at ground floor; single window breaking eaves with segmental-arched pediment above; tripartite pedimented stair window at 1st floor of main house.

W ELEVATION: single windows at ground floor to outer left and 1st floor to outer right.

S ELEVATION: full-height canted window to outer left; single windows in remaining bays. Service wing adjoining to outer right.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; 4 shouldered and corniced moulded stacks; moulded octagonal cans; iron finial; moulded eaves guttering.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low saddleback boundary wall to street, rising to E and W; pair of coped ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles; flat-roofed rendered double garage to E

Statement of Special Interest

This is the earlier of 2 almost identical houses in Fountainhall Road (the other being No 55) both designed by John McLachlan for Councillor W B McLachlan.

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