Lothian College Of Nursing And Midwifery, 10 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh

The Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery, located at 10 Chalmers Crescent in Edinburgh, is a baronial style villa built around 1868. This two-storey, three-bay building features a rectangular plan and includes a round castellated tower. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, with coursed stugged ashlar on the west elevation. It has crowstepped gables and chamfered reveals.

On the west (entrance) elevation, there is a central pilastered doorpiece topped with a cornice and a stepped pediment. The round-arched doorway includes a keystone and rope moulding, leading to a deep-set panelled door and a plate glass fanlight above. A bipartite window is positioned on the first floor above the entrance. To the outer left, there is a full-height canted window with a dividing cornice and blocking course, while a single window is located at the gablehead. To the inner right, an advanced tripartite window with a cornice and crenellations is flanked by another tripartite window above.

The round tower on the outer right side is three storeys high, featuring a large base course and dividing bands. It has single windows on the ground and first floors, and five single windows encircle the third floor, breaking the eaves and topped with machiolations.

The south elevation includes a single window at ground level and a fire exit on the first floor, with an iron fire escape leading to the eaves. The north elevation has a single-storey service wing with a basement, a decorative cast-iron staircase to the ground floor, and a single window on the first floor.

On the east elevation, there is a large flat-roofed extension at ground level that is not in keeping with the original design. A round-arched tripartite stair window is located at the centre of the first floor, flanked by single windows on both sides. A small single window is set in the gablehead on the outer right.

The building features plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate gabled roof, and two round-arched timber pedimented dormers on the west side, along with a single pedimented dormer on the east. The eaves have moulded guttering, some original rainwater goods, and two small grotesques at the eaves on the west side. There are three corniced gablehead stacks with moulded octagonal cans.

Inside, the villa has a bipartite vestibule door with glazed upper panels and leaded fanlight panels. Decorative plaster cornices adorn the vestibule and hall, and there is a carved wooden bookcase in the library.

The property is bordered by a low sandstone rubble wall along the street, rising to the north, with large corniced ashlar gatepiers to the south and high rubble mutual boundary walls.