52, 54 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh

52 and 54 Inverleith Place is a large, asymmetrical two-storey Renaissance villa built in the mid-Victorian style, located on a prominent corner site in Edinburgh. The building features polished ashlar stone with rusticated quoins and openings framed by lugged architraves.

The south-facing entrance front has three bays, with a central tripartite entrance door that includes a rectangular fanlight and side lights, all set within an open porch supported by coupled Ionic columns with polished granite shafts and fluted necking. The porch also has a pulvinated frieze with console brackets and a central scrolled cartouche, topped with a balustraded parapet. Above the entrance, the first floor has a bipartite window.

To the left, there is a two-storey four-light semi-lozenge window with architraves and curved glass in the outer lights. To the right, a shallow two-storey rectangular tripartite window features corbelled cills. The building is adorned with a first-floor band course and a modillioned main cornice.

The east elevation includes a two-storey four-light canted bay on the left, central bipartite windows, and a shallow rectangular three-light bay to the right. The rear wing is two-storey with two windows, constructed of rubble with polished dressings and pedimented dormerheads.

The west elevation has three windows and a single-storey canted porch with a side door leading to 54. Above this porch is a blocking course and a bipartite window. There is also a two-window office wing to the north. The roof is green slated, piended, and platformed, featuring a scrolled wrought-iron balustrade and a finial over the left front bay.

Corniced ashlar stacks with side scrolls are present on the west elevation. At 52, there are three ashlar gatepiers with panels, fluted bands, and cornices, along with iron main gates and a timber foot gate. At 54, there are two similar gatepiers and wide iron gates decorated with a thistle motif.