6 Wester Coates Road, Edinburgh

Henry F Kerr, 1896; JH Herdman, 1907, addition. 2-storey, elongated L-plan red sandstone baronial villa with octagonal entrance turret, corbelled corner turrets and crowstepped gables. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble with polished dressings. Quoins; long and short surrounds; mullioned and transomed canted bay windows; swept conical roofs with ball finials to corner turrets.

W (WESTER COATES RD) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay at left with single storey flat-roofed polygonal-plan porch at ground; piend-roofed 3-light canted bay to 1st floor above; penultimate bay to left advanced at ground, with small bipartite window at left, door to right set in recessed, depressed-arch opening; moulded cornice above; curvilinear pediment with ball finial to dormer window, breaking eaves above; bay third from left advanced and gabled, with 5-light canted bay with coped parapet to ground; bipartite window with recessed, moulded and polished semicircular panel forming pediment at 1st floor above; engaged octagonal turret to re-entrant angle to S; ogeed, moulded, basket-arched opening to central face at ground with 2-leaf boarded door; small window to face at left; frieze and scrolled pediment to doorpiece; window to 1st floor above, with semicircular pediment and ball finial above cornice; polygonal roof with ball finial; mullioned and transomed 8-light window at 1st floor to right of turret, with small window to right at ground below; window to right; large dormer with semicircular, ball-finialled pediment at 1st floor above; tall wallhead stack and chimney breast at penultimate bay to right; large dormer with semicircular pediment to 1st floor at bay to outer right.

S (WESTER COATES GARDENS) ELEVATION: advanced, gabled bay at left; canted bay at ground with coped, castellated parapet; centred window at floor above, surmounted by recessed semicircular panel; small light to pepperpots at each angle of 1st floor; advanced, coped, single storey garage at right with painted lintel and large 3-pane fanlight above door; wallhead stack to 1st floor of S side of skewed, gabled bay behind.

Predominantly sash and case glazing, with small-paned upper sashes; modern glazing to porch at N of Wester Coates Road elevation. Grey slate roof; tall, coped, wallhead stacks with cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped, coursed red sandstone boundary walls to street.