8 Priestfield Road, Edinburgh

8 Priestfield Road in Edinburgh is a pair of symmetrical houses built in 1882, with later additions. The buildings are two stories high and consist of four bays. They are constructed from coursed cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings on the principal and west elevations, while the east elevation and rear are made from squared and snecked rubble. The design features a base course, long and short ashlar quoins, shouldered architraves on the first-floor single windows, a cill course for the first-floor windows between the canted windows, a deep cornice, and a mutual skewputt. A modern garage next to No 6 is not included in the listing.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there are doorways in the two central bays with panelled doors and plate glass fanlights. The doorpieces are stylised and pilastered, featuring intricately carved pediments that depict figures, animals, and flowers. Above these, there are segmental-arched single windows with scroll motifs on the bracketed cills. The outer bays have full-height, three-light canted windows that break the eaves, with carved chevrons above the first floor and cast-iron finials on the roofs.

The east (Kilmaurs Road) elevation has a single central window on the ground floor and a round-arched stair window on the first floor above. There are single windows to the outer right and an advanced tripartite window on the ground floor to the outer left, along with a carved panel bearing the date above on the first floor. A canted dormer is located to the right.

The west elevation features a central round-arched stair window on the first floor, a canted dormer to the left, and single windows on both floors to the outer right.

On the south elevation, there are single-storey extensions on both the outer right and left, along with box dormers.

The glazing is predominantly replacement, with some timber sash and case windows at No 8. The roof is made of grey slate, with a platform roof and piended roofs on the single-storey extensions. The building has shouldered, coped wallhead stacks and a coped ridge stack.