255 Scotland Road is a 2 1/2 story, 3 bay, rectangular plan, Colonial Revival influenced, eclectic, brownstone and wood framed, residential building. Constructed c. 1880, the brownstone and clapboard-clad house has a side gabled roof with an Ionic column-supported, centered, pedimented wall dormer, flanked by pedimented gable dormers. The second floor pedimented gabled balcony is supported by Ionic columns. The brownstone first floor features a recessed entry flanked by fluted Doric columns. Additional ornamentation includes Palladian windows in the gable apices, massive paneled chimneys with round-arched openings, corner pilasters with Ionic capitals, classicizing window surrounds and 1/1 windows. The house is set on a perpendicular to Scotland Road and has an estate setting. In 1890, the house was owned by B.B. Schneider. By 1911 it was owned by William S. Rodie.