47 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

47 Lauder Road is a double villa built in 1868 by John Paterson, featuring two storeys and a basement with a symmetrical rectangular plan. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked rubble, accented with polished ashlar dressings on the west (entrance) elevation. Notable architectural details include a painted base and eaves courses, quoin strips with nook-shafts and miniature carved capitals, a bracketed cornice, and nook-shafted margins and mullions adorned with various foliate capitals. The windows are primarily round-arched on the ground floor and segmental on the first floor.

On the west elevation, entrances are located at the second and third bays, featuring round-arched tripartite door pieces painted in a pinkish brown, flanked by slim sash and case windows with etched glass. The deep-set panelled doors are topped with round-arched plate glass fanlights. Above these entrances are single windows, and the advanced bays on the outer left and right have full-height canted windows with dividing cornices, which are also painted.

The north elevation includes windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a datestone beneath the cornice return. The south elevation has windows at both levels as well. The east elevation displays symmetrical fenestration and features a wooden sunporch added in 1969, with a forestair leading to the principal floor on the outer right, and a two-leaf glazed door at the basement on the outer left.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows on the west side, while the east side features a mix of three-pane and twelve-pane sash and case windows, along with a plate glass pivot window. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with lead flashing and moulded eaves guttering. There are four 19th-century segmental-arched dormers, two on the east and two on the west, and six corniced wallhead stacks, four of which are shouldered and one rendered.

Inside, the villa boasts ornate plaster mouldings and encaustic tiles in the vestibules, along with glazed tripartite vestibule doors. The property is bordered by low boundary walls along the street and includes a detached garage to the north.