43 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

41 Lauder Road is a double villa built in 1867 by John Paterson, featuring two stories and a basement. The building has a symmetrical rectangular plan with four bays and is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, along with snecked and stugged ashlar that has polished dressings on the west (entrance) elevation. Notable architectural details include base and eaves courses, quoin strips with nook-shafts and miniature carved capitals, a bracketted cornice, and mullions with various foliate capitals. The windows are primarily round-arched on the ground floor and segmental on the first floor, each with architraved lintels.

The west elevation features the entrance located at the second and third bays, with round-arched doorways flanked by colonettes that have carved foliate capitals. The entrance includes deep-set two-leaf panelled doors and round-arched plate glass fanlights. Above the entrances are single windows, and the advanced bays on either side have full-height canted windows with dividing cornices.

On the north elevation, there are single windows at the basement, ground, and first floors, along with a basement entrance and a datestone beneath the cornice return. The south elevation mirrors this with single windows at each level and a basement entrance, also featuring a datestone beneath the cornice return.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof with lead flashing, moulded eaves guttering, and shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks on the north and south sides.

Inside number 41, there is an encaustic-tiled vestibule, ornate plaster cornices, and a cast-iron balustrade. The property has a very low saddleback wall facing the street and an attached garage on the south side.