13, 15, 17 Pittville Street, Joppa, Edinburgh

13, 15, 17 Pittville Street is a classical villa built in the earlier 19th century, with later additions and subdivided into three houses in 1927. The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement at the sides and rear, and features three bays. It is constructed of painted ashlar and rubble with droved dressings on the side and rear elevations. The design includes a base course, a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with broad corner pilasters and moulded architraves with panelled aprons.

The southeast (principal) elevation has a slightly advanced central bay, with five steps leading to an open porch. This porch is pilastered and features coupled Greek Doric fluted columns that support a corniced entablature. The entrance includes a panelled door, a five oval-paned rectangular fanlight, and a window above on the first floor. There are windows on each floor of the flanking bays.

On the northeast elevation, there are windows at the ground and first floor in the centre, a window at the basement and first floor of the bay to the left, and a blank bay to the right. The entrance to No 17 is located at the basement.

The northwest (rear) elevation is symmetrical, featuring a round-arched stair window at the centre with a keystone, and a harled extension below that partially obscures the stair window.

The building has 12-paned timber sash and case windows, a piended slate roof with central piended dormers at the front and rear, and a flat roof on the rear extension. There are wallhead shouldered stacks at the bay in the centre of the side elevations.

Inside, the staircase has been altered, but there is good plasterwork throughout, an etched glass tripartite vestibule screen, and a fluted Corinthian mahogany chimneypiece with a tripartite overmantel, which may be a later addition.

The boundary walls are made of stugged ashlar with polished ashlar coping and were formerly topped with cast-iron railings.