7 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

7 Greenhill Gardens is a villa built in 1849 by David Cousin. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan structure featuring classical details. An addition was made to the north in 1901, along with single-storey modern extensions to the rear. The villa is constructed from cream sandstone, with a stugged ashlar front that has polished dressings, and squared and snecked stugged rubble on the rear and sides, also with stugged dressings. It has a base course, architraved and corniced windows (with bracketed cornices on the first-floor windows), bracketed cills, an eaves cornice, and overhanging eaves.

The east elevation features an architraved doorway at the center with a shallow pilastered porch, frieze, and blocking course, leading to a two-leaf door. Above this is a bipartite window on the first floor. There are single windows on both the ground and first floors of the outer bays, as well as in a slightly recessed single bay addition to the right.

The west elevation has three bays with a full-height canted window in the left bay and a secondary door in the center bay. To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a later flat-roofed concrete addition, and single windows on the first floor, along with a small central wallhead stack.

The south elevation features a rubble-built forestair with a small closed porch and a short central wallhead stack. The north elevation also has a short central wallhead stack.

The villa has timber sash and case windows, mostly with two-pane upper sashes and four-pane lower sashes, although the rear canted window has replacement windows. It has a slate piend roof with metal flashings and three wallhead stacks, some with tall square coped cans. The eaves gutters are moulded.

The interior was not seen in 1992. Surrounding the property is a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping on the rear and sides, a low rubble wall at the front, and cast-iron gates (two pedestrian and one carriage) along with railings, which are later replacements.