3-3A Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh

This is a two-storey and attic villa, dating to circa 1875, with a later addition of a porch and a mansard roof around 1900. It is located at 3-3A Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh.

The villa has a rectangular plan and is constructed of cream sandstone, with ashlar facing the front and squared and snecked rubble to the rear and sides. Stugged ashlar dressings are used, along with bull-faced quoins to the rear. Architectural details include a base course, a band course above the ground floor, moulded stone brackets to the eaves cornice, and windows with shouldered architraves, some featuring inset stars; those on the ground floor have architraves semi-circling over the stars. Stop-chamfered reveals are visible on the rear and sides, alongside bracketted cills. The attic windows have timber cornices.

The north-east (front) elevation features a tall parapet above the eaves cornice and a closed ashlar entrance porch at the centre. The porch has pedestaled angle pilasters and moulded capitals, a round-arched and keystoned doorway with a two-leaf panelled door and semicircular fanlight, an entablature, and keystoned bull's-eye windows on its returns. A single window is positioned above the doorway at the first floor, and an ashlar dormer window is topped with a scroll-flanked base and a moulded segmental-arched pediment over a blind balustrade. Tripartite windows are found in the outer bays on the ground floor. A single-storey garage with a rubble parapet sits to the right.

The south-west (rear) elevation is three-storeys high, with a full-height, droved ashlar, canted window in the right-hand bay. Single windows are present in the centre bay, and bipartite windows in the left-hand bay. A secondary door is centrally located. Corniced attic dormers are also visible, alongside a shouldered wallhead stack to the left of centre.

The north-west elevation showcases the single-storey garage, a single window at the first floor on the main block, a central, shouldered wallhead stack that has been raised and features a pierced, blinded arch, a tripartite dormer to the left, and a single dormer to the right.

The south-east elevation contains a flat-roofed, rubble-built secondary entrance porch, with windows and a door in the returns. A tall transomed bipartite stair window with square leaded panes and coloured border glazing is also present. A central, shouldered wallhead stack has been raised and pierced with a blinded arch following the addition of the mansard roof; a tripartite dormer is positioned to the right and a single dormer to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing, though some attic windows retain small panes. The roof is slate with lead flashings. Three coped wallhead stacks and one central ridge stack are present. The interior was not inspected in 1992.

The site includes a low rubble boundary wall with saddleback coping to the front, later gates and railings (original railings to the south-east), and a tall rubble wall with semicircular coping to the rear and sides.