52, 54 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh

R M Cameron. Large asymmetrical 2-storey Renaissance villa

of old fashioned mid-Victorian type on prominent corner

site, polished ashlar with rusticated quoins and lugged

architrave openings. South entrance front 3-bay, central

tripartite entrance door with rectangular fanlight and

side lights within open porch of coupled Ionic columns

with polished granite shafts and fluted necking,

pulvinated frieze with console brackets and central

scrolled cartouche, balustraded parapet, first floor

bipartite over. Left hand bay 2 storey 4-light

semi-lozenge, architraved with curved glass at outer

lights; right hand bay shallow 2-storey rectangular

tripartite with corbelled cills. First floor band course

and modillioned main cornice. East elevation has 2-storey

4-light canted bay on left, central bipartites and shallow

rectangular 3-light bay to right. 2-storey 2-window rubble

rear wing with polished dressings and pedimented

dormerheads. West elevation 3-window with single-storey

canted porch, side door (to 54) on left, blocking course

and bipartite over. 2-window office wing to north. Green

slated roof piended and platformed with scrolled wrot-iron

balustrade. Finial over left front bay. Corniced ashlar

stacks, with side scrolls in west elevation. At 52 three

ashlar gatepiers with panels, fluted bands and cornices,

iron main gates, timber foot gate. At 54 two similar

gatepiers and wide iron gates with thistle motif.