2 Dick Place, Edinburgh

2 Dick Place is a villa built around 1860 in the style of David Cousin. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan building with a single-storey service wing to the west that has a mansard roof and is subdivided. The sides and rear of the villa are constructed of squared and snecked rubble, while the northern elevation features stugged coursed ashlar. The building has a base course, an eaves cornice, rusticated quoins, raised window surrounds, bracketed cills, and corniced windows on the ground floor.

The northern (entrance) elevation has a central pilastered doorpiece with scrolled consoles supporting the cornice, a panelled door, and a plate glass fanlight. Above the door, there is a single window, with additional windows in the remaining bays. The service wing is attached to the outer right and includes two single windows at the ground floor, a cornice leading to a deep pierced stone balustrade, and a single corniced dormer window with a block pediment on the mansard roof.

The eastern elevation features a forestair leading to a first-floor secondary entrance, which interrupts a former stair window, with the remainder of the opening serving as a round-arched fanlight. There is a single window to the left of this entrance.

The villa has six-pane sash and case windows, with the surrounds painted at the ground floor. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with lead flashing. It features four shouldered wallhead stacks with deep cornices, tall moulded octagonal cans, and moulded eaves guttering.

The interiors were not seen in 1990. The property is bordered by a low saddleback wall with replacement railings along the street, and a high coped wall with pedestrian gateways adjoins the house to the east.