6 Wester Coates Road, Edinburgh

6 Wester Coates Road is an elongated, L-shaped, two-storey baronial villa, dating from 1896 and with an addition in 1907 by JH Herdman. The building is constructed of red sandstone rubble with polished dressings, and features quoins, long and short surrounds, mullioned and transomed canted bay windows, and crowstepped gables, all characteristic of the baronial style. Corner turrets are corbelled and topped with ball finials, while the entrance is marked by an octagonal turret.

The west-facing elevation (Wester Coates Road) is dominated by an advanced gabled bay to the left, which has a single-storey, flat-roofed, polygonal porch at ground level, and a piend-roofed three-light canted bay above. An advanced bay is located to the left, with a small bipartite window at ground level and a door recessed within a depressed-arch opening to the right. A curvilinear pediment with a ball finial tops a dormer window breaking the eaves. The third bay from the left is also advanced and gabled, with a five-light canted bay with a coped parapet. The first floor of this bay features a bipartite window with a recessed, moulded, semicircular panel forming a pediment. An engaged octagonal turret is set into the re-entrant angle to the south. A basket-arched, moulded, opening with a two-leaf boarded door is centred on the façade at ground level, flanked by a small window to the left and a mullioned and transomed eight-light window on the first floor to the right, with a smaller window below. A large dormer with a semicircular, ball-finialled pediment is located on the first floor to the far right, and a tall wallhead stack and chimney breast are situated in the penultimate bay.

The south-facing elevation (Wester Coates Gardens) has an advanced, gabled bay at its left, which has a canted bay with a coped, castellated parapet at ground level. A small light is incorporated into the pepperpots at each angle of the first floor. An advanced, coped, single-storey garage is positioned to the right, featuring a painted lintel and a large three-pane fanlight above the door. A wallhead stack is located on the first floor of the south side of a skewed, gabled bay.

The windows are predominantly sash and case with small-paned upper sashes, although the porch on the north side of the Wester Coates Road elevation has modern glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate, with tall, coped wallhead stacks topped with cylindrical cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Coped, coursed red sandstone boundary walls run along the street.