47 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

John Paterson (initialled "JP"), dated 1868. 2-storey with basement, 4-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan double villa. Squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings at W (entrance) elevation. Base (painted) and eaves courses; quoin strips with nook-shafts and miniature carved capitals; bracketed cornice; nook-shafted margins and mullions with variety of foliate capitals; windows mainly round-arched at ground floor and segmental at 1st floor.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrances at 2nd and 3rd bays; round-arched tripartite door pieces (painted pinkish brown) with slim sash and case windows (etched glass at 45) flanking doorways; deep-set panelled doors; round-arched plate glass fanlights. Single windows above; full height canted windows with dividing cornices to advanced bays to outer left (painted) and outer right.

N ELEVATION: windows at ground and 1st floors; datestone beneath cornice return.

S ELEVATION: windows at ground and 1st floor.

E ELVATION: symmetrical fenestration; wooden sunporch (1969) with forestair to principal floor to outer right; 2-leaf glazed door at basement to outer left.

Plate glass sash and case windows to W; mixture of 3-pane and 12-pane sash and case with plate glass pivot window to E. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; moulded eaves guttering; 4 19th century segmental-arched dormers (2 to E, 2 to W); 6 corniced wallhead stacks (4 shouldered, 1 rendered).

INTERIORS: ornate plaster mouldings and encaustic tiles in vestibules; glazed tripartite vestibule doors.

Low boundary walls to street; detached garage to N.