44 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

44 Polwarth Terrace is a villa built around 1815 and later moved and re-erected around 1880. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan building with classical details, constructed from yellow sandstone with an ashlar front and coursed and squared rubble on the sides and rear. The villa features ashlar margins, raised long and short quoins, architraved reveals, a ground and first-floor cill course, a cornice, and a blocking course.

The front elevation has a slightly projecting central bay with a pediment and an urn finial. It includes a Roman Doric columned and architraved doorpiece accessed by two shallow steps, leading to a panelled door with a plate glass rectangular fanlight. Above the door is a single window, with additional single windows in the outer bays. The ground floor windows are corniced and feature carved friezes.

On the rear elevation, there is a full-height bowed bay to the right with three windows on each floor and a conical roof. The central bay has a long rectangular round-headed stair window on the first floor and a single window below. The outer left bay has a single window on the first floor, with a square one-storey outbuilding at ground floor level.

The southwest elevation features one central window under a chimney and a single-storey garage extension. The northeast elevation has a single-storey garage extension on the outer right side, with a central entrance door and two windows to the right.

The villa has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. The roof is piended and platformed, covered with Scottish slate, and features a Velux window at the front and a dormer with a bipartite window at the rear. The corniced wallhead stacks are scrolled at the base and linked to the roof, with the northeast stack located by the dormer and octagonal cans.

The boundary walls consist of a high rubble wall surrounding the front, rear, and sides, with square gatepiers at the front. These gatepiers are inset with rectangular and round moulding patterns, topped with stepped pyramidal coping and ball finials.