Braidfoot, 13 Braid Road, Edinburgh

Braidfoot is a villa located at 13 Braid Road in Edinburgh, designed by architect R Rowand Anderson in 1889. This two-storey and attic building features a three-bay rectangular plan and is constructed of cream sandstone with a coursed and square rubble front, polished dressings, and squared and snecked rubble on the rear and sides. The design includes rounded reveals, a moulded cill course at the first floor, an ashlar frieze, and an eaves cornice. The ashlar mullions and tall shouldered, corniced wallhead stacks contribute to the steep roof.

The front elevation has a central doorway flanked by part-fluted pilasters with pedestals and Ionic capitals. The frieze features floral carving and entwined letters M and W, along with a cornice, a rectangular plate glass fanlight, and a panelled door. Above the doorway, there is a single window on the first floor. To the left, there is a two-storey canted ashlar window with a cornice, blocking course, and a half-ogee finialled roof. The right bay contains a bipartite window at the ground floor and a single window above on the first floor. The north and south elevations feature two single windows in the central bay, with a wallhead stack above and a small rectangular dormer on either side.

There is a single-storey flat-roofed garage to the south. The villa has timber sash and case windows, with multi-pane upper sashes and two-pane lower sashes. The steep roof is covered with green slate and includes lead flashings, along with two wallhead stacks as previously mentioned and one at the rear. The building also has a moulded eaves gutter and gutterheads.

The interior was not seen in 1992. A low rubble wall with saddleback coping, along with later gates and railings, encloses the front of the property.