22 Braid Avenue, Edinburgh

This is a large, asymmetrical villa with a carriage house, built in 1902 to a design by Charles M Johnston, incorporating details reminiscent of the 17th century. The villa is constructed from variegated pink sandstone with squared and snecked rubble, accented by red ashlar dressings. Rounded corners are a notable feature, along with ashlar mullions, crowstepped gables, an eaves cornice, and stacks with ashlar coping. First-floor windows often break the eaves, set within semi-circular or triangular pediments bearing blank panels.

The east (entrance) elevation is five bays wide, with a prominent advanced gabled bay at the centre featuring moulded skews and ashlar finials. The entrance itself is a round-arched doorway with detailed rope moulding and decorative label stops. Other windows include those with semi-circular pediments and numerous timber dormers with carved corbels. The south (Hermitage Drive) elevation has two bays, with a canted ground floor window corbelled to a square at first floor. The west elevation presents a mix of segmental-arched doorways, canted windows, and gabled bays with apex stacks. The north (rear) elevation is simpler in design, with windows breaking the eaves.

The carriage house, added in 1908, is a single-storey structure with a piend roof and a central section featuring two timber carriage doors and a hay loft with a segmental-arched head.

Original timber sash and case windows remain, predominantly with six-pane upper sashes, plate glass glazing at the bottom, or two-pane lower sashes. The roof is covered in green slate, complemented by distinctive red ridge tiles, crowstepped skews with corbelled skewputts, and five apex stacks.

Inside, the first-floor billiard room retains exposed transverse beams supported by stone corbels with iron ties.

The property is enclosed by tall rubble boundary walls with semi-circular or saddleback coping. Three coped ashlar gatepiers, topped with studded ball finials, mark the eastern boundary.