8-8A Dick Place, Edinburgh

8-8A Dick Place is a villa built around 1860, featuring two stories and a symmetrical three-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, with lightly stugged coursed ashlar on the northern side. It includes a base course, cill and band courses, a cornice, a blocking course, raised window surrounds, chamfered reveals, and droved margins.

The northern elevation, which faces the entrance, has a central architraved doorpiece with carved consoles and a cornice, leading to a panelled door and a four-light fanlight above. There is a single window above the entrance and regular fenestration in the remaining bays.

On the western elevation, there is a lean-to greenhouse at the ground floor with a secondary entrance, along with a single window and a small square window on the first floor. Evidence of a former structure can be seen at the first-floor cill level.

The eastern elevation features a single-storey extension and a service wing that connects the main house to the carriage house.

The southern elevation has single windows at both the ground and first floors in the center, bipartite windows at the ground and first floors to the outer left, and a late 19th-century full-height canted window added to the outer right. The northern side has 12-pane sash and case windows, while other elevations have a mix of small-pane and plate glass windows. The roof is a grey slate shallow pitched piended design, with an early 20th-century tripartite box dormer on the northern side and a canted dormer on the southern side. It features lead flashing and three shouldered wallhead stacks, with the eastern and western stacks linked to the main roof by mansards and moulded octagonal cans.

Inside, there is a glass panelled vestibule door, decorative plaster cornices, and a flagged stone hall and vestibule, along with a turned wood screen.

The carriage house is a single-storey building with an attic, currently used as a garage. It has two-leaf double doors and a window above, topped with a piend roof.

The property is enclosed by a low boundary wall along the street, with low gatepiers that have pyramidal coping, and high mutual boundary walls.