7 Palmerston Road, Edinburgh

7 Palmerston Road is a two-storey, three-bay L-plan villa built around 1866. The building features squared and snecked sandstone rubble on the sides and rear, while the entrance elevation is finished with stugged and snecked ashlar and polished dressings. It has a base course, a cornice, long and short quoins, and architraved window surrounds.

The entrance elevation has a stone porch located at the center bay, which is in the re-entrant angle of an advanced bay to the right. This porch is supported by three polygonal columns—two attached and one detached—featuring carved foliate capitals. These columns support keystoned segmental arches, a decorative frieze, and a deep bracketed cornice. The sandstone balustrade is painted red, and the porch has a timber soffit. The segmental arched doorway is framed with an architrave and features a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. There is also a blind doorway to the advanced bay return. The porch roof serves as a balcony for the architraved, keystoned, and segmental-arched windows located above and on the return of the advanced bay to the right at the first floor, which has a replacement decorative wrought-iron balustrade. The advanced bay on the outer right has a full-height canted window, which is divided by a decorative frieze and bracketed cornice. To the outer left, there is a bipartite window at ground floor level with a bracketed cornice, and a slightly advanced bipartite window above.

The south elevation features a single-storey extension with a single window at the first floor. The north elevation has single windows at both ground and first floors. The west elevation includes a single-storey service wing with additional structures at the center, a round-arched stair window above, and regular fenestration in the remaining bays.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows, except for the two-leaf windows leading to the balcony. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design with lead flashing. There are three shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks—two on the north side and one on the south—along with a coped wallhead stack on the west. The west side also features a mansard roof with a dormer.

Inside, the interiors of Nos 7A and 7B were not seen in 1990, but No 7 has a painted glass stair window and a cast iron balustrade. The property is enclosed by a low wall with saddleback coping along the street and a high rubble boundary wall to the south. There are also two garages located at the rear.