55 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

59 Colinton Road is a terrace of five houses built around 1877, featuring two stories and an attic, with two and three bays. The front is made of cream sandstone, squared and snecked with stugged ashlar and polished dressings, while the rear and sides are constructed from squared and snecked rubble. Architectural details include stop-chamfered reveals, a string course above the ground floor, exposed rafters, and corniced doorways with carved consoles. Each house has two-leaf panelled doors, rectangular plate glass fanlights, and tiled vestibules. The two-storey canted windows are swept to square in the gablehead, with platformed roofs and a single window in the gablehead.

On the northwest (front) elevation, the centre and end houses (numbers 57, 53, and 61) are three bays wide, featuring a central doorway and a single window above on the first floor. The left bay has a canted window, while the right bay has a gabled section with a single window on both the ground and first floors. The first-floor window has a cornice and nailhead label stops, and there is a single window in the gablehead of number 61, which has a kingpost. The houses on either side of the centre (numbers 55 and 59) are two bays wide, each with an entrance doorway and a single window on the first floor in the left bay, and a canted window in the right bay.

The southeast (rear) elevation features single-storey projections with single windows in the remaining bays, and each house has two canted dormers. The northeast and southwest elevations have small windows on the ground and first floors of the central bay, along with two tall corniced wallhead stacks linked to the roof.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing at the front and four-pane windows at the rear. The roof is slate with lead flashings and has four wallhead stacks. The eaves gutter is moulded.

The interior was not seen in 1992. The front is bordered by a low stepped rubble wall with saddleback coping and some later gates.