24 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

Circa 1870-75, 24 Polwarth Terrace is a two-storey and attic, three-bay villa with a basement at the rear. The front and sides are constructed of cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, while the rear has a bull-faced rubble finish with bull-faced quoins and droved ashlar dressings. The villa features a moulded string course at ground floor level that rises to a hoodmould over the openings, an ashlar base course, and ashlar mullions. Elaborately fretted barboards adorn the gables, and triangular gabled dormerheads are present on the front and sides. Timber brackets support the eaves.

The south-east (front) elevation has an advanced gabled bay to the left, featuring a full-height canted window that sweeps to a square in the gablehead. A moulded string course rises over a blank square panel above the first-floor window, and an arrowslit window is located in the gablehead. A doorway is centrally positioned in the middle bay, displaying bolection moulding and a blank square panel above a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight and pierced balustrade to the right. A single window breaks the eaves at the first floor. A tripartite window sits at ground floor level in the bay to the right, with a raised hoodmould, while a bipartite window breaks the eaves at the first floor.

The north-west (rear) elevation is two storeys and basement. A taller gabled bay is located on the right with single windows on each floor. The narrower, central gabled bay incorporates small windows to the basement and ground floor, alongside a tall, transomed tripartite stair window on the first floor. Two basement windows are situated in the left bay, followed by single windows at ground and first floor levels; the first-floor window breaks the eaves with a gabled dormerhead.

The south-west elevation contains a central gable with a wallhead stack. To the right of centre, two windows are at basement level, with a single window at ground and first floor levels to the outer right, the first-floor window again breaking the eaves. A single-storey brick extension and an open shelter with cast-iron columns supporting a piend glass roof are located at basement level on the left.

The north-east elevation exhibits a side door at centre level leading to the basement, two narrow windows to the left, and single windows in the centre at ground and first floor levels, with a stack to the gablehead. The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing on the front and sides, and two-pane upper sashes and four-pane lower sashes on the rear. The roof is covered with Scottish slate and lead flashings, featuring two ridge stacks with octagonal cans. Moulded gutterheads are present, along with ashlar steps leading into the garden.

The interior was not inspected in 1992.

A low rubble boundary wall with saddleback coping, square gatepiers, cast-iron gates, and railings enclose the property.