13-15 Church Hill, Morningside, Edinburgh

The Stable Block at 13-15 Churchill in Morningside, Edinburgh, dates from around 1845 and is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical villa that has been subdivided. It features a service wing to the east and a stable block. The building is constructed from cream sandstone with a polished ashlar front and droved dressings, while the rear and sides are made of squared and snecked stugged rubble. It has a base course, cill courses on both the ground and first floors, architraved windows with bracketed cills, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course that bears a tablet.

On the south (front) elevation, there is an architraved doorway at the center with a consoled cornice, a deep-set panelled door, and a rectangular plate glass fanlight above. A single window is located on the first floor above the doorway, and the outer bays contain single windows on both the ground and first floors.

The north (rear) elevation features a piended roof with a central bay that has two single windows on the first floor, along with a balconette. The left bay has a modern conservatory at the ground floor and three windows of various sizes on the first floor. The right bay has a door inserted where a window used to be at the ground floor, with a single window above on the first floor.

The west elevation includes a modern forestair with a glazed porch at the center bay, while the outer bays have single windows on the first floor, with the right bay featuring a hortus fenestralis. There is a coped wallhead stack to the left.

The east elevation has a lower two-storey service wing that projects to the right, with single windows in the center bays. There is a coped wallhead stack to the right of the main block. The stable block, located to the northeast, is a single-storey structure with a hayloft, built in a rectangular plan using squared and snecked stugged rubble and topped with a piended roof. It has a large carriage opening with a modern door and a single roof with a small-pane fanlight, while the hayloft is accessed through a half-piended dormer.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, mostly 12-pane, with two plate glass windows on the front elevation. The roof is covered in slate with lead flashings, and there are two wallhead stacks, two central stacks, and octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1992. The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping along the front, rear, and sides. There is one droved ashlar gatepier with cut-away arises and ogee coping, and one square coped ashlar pier.