8 Abbotsford Crescent, Edinburgh

8 Abbotsford Crescent is a villa built around 1865, featuring two storeys and a basement with four bays, showcasing Renaissance details and a large modern addition from 1962 on the southeast side. The building is constructed of cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with polished ashlar dressings on the front, while the rear and sides are made of squared and snecked rubble. Notable architectural features include a band course above the basement and ground floor, an eaves cornice with a blocking course and a balustraded parapet, stop-chamfered reveals, bracketed cills, rusticated quoins, and ashlar mullions.

On the northeast (front) elevation, there is a raised doorway to the left of centre accessed by steps, featuring a balustraded parapet with moulded dies, a Roman Doric porch adorned with a frieze of triglyphs and roundels, a dentilled cornice, and a blocking course. The doorway has a round-arched and keystoned moulded surround, with a two-leaf panelled door and a semi-circular plate glass fanlight above. A single window is located at the first floor above the entrance. The flanking bays have bipartite windows on each floor, and there is an advanced bay on the outer right with tripartite windows in an advanced panel at both the ground and first floors.

The southwest (rear) elevation features a three-storey canted window with a half-piend roof to the left of centre, and a tall round-arched stair window to the right of centre. There is also a square projection with tripartite windows and a half-piend roof on the outer left.

The northeast elevation includes a corniced and shouldered wallhead stack, while the southeast elevation has the large two-storey flat-roofed rendered addition from 1962. The wallhead stack has been rebuilt and rendered. The villa has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, and some four-pane windows at the rear. The roof is a combination of piend and platform slate with metal flashings, featuring two wallhead stacks and a truncated central stack.

Inside, the villa has been subdivided into multiple rooms. The vestibule is tiled, and there is a tripartite inner doorpiece with etched glass. The central stair features a cast-iron balustrade. A low rubble wall at the front has saddleback coping.