Hopefield, 17 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

Hopefield, located at 17 Greenhill Gardens in Edinburgh, is a cottage built in 1851 and extended in 1895 by Frank W Simon & Tweedie. It is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays, featuring a later two-storey bay on the west side. The building is constructed of cream sandstone, with a stugged ashlar front and squared and snecked stugged ashlar on the rear and sides, adorned with droved dressings. It has a base course, ashlar quoins, and mullions, along with an eaves cornice.

The south elevation showcases a projecting ground floor with a balustraded parapet and a centrally located pilastered and corniced doorway that includes a rectangular plate glass fanlight. There are tripartite windows with narrow outer lights on either side of the doorway. The roof features two canted dormers, each with a single window and half-pitched roofs. The two-storey addition on the outer left has a piend roof, a cill band course at the first floor, a single window at the ground floor, and a bipartite window at the first floor.

On the north elevation, there is a two-storey gabled projection at the center with an apex stack. The left side has a gabled bay with an apex stack and single windows, while there is a single-storey lean-to projection in the re-entrant angle that includes a secondary door on the return. A later wing is situated on the outer right.

The west elevation is rendered and features two wallhead stacks. The east elevation is gabled with an apex stack and includes a band course above the ground floor that meets the eaves cornice at the corner, along with a single window at the ground floor. The windows throughout the building include timber sash and case styles, with some featuring plate glass glazing, some 12-pane windows, and others with 6-pane upper sashes and 2-pane lower sashes. The roof is slate with metal flashings, and there are two wallhead stacks, three apex stacks, one central stack, and some octagonal cans.

Inside, there is a tiled vestibule and hall, along with a cast-iron balustrade leading to the stair. The boundary wall surrounding the property is a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping on the rear and west sides, and flat ashlar coping on the front and east sides. The tall coped gatepiers are made of droved ashlar on the east side, with timber pedestrian and carriage gates.