26 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

26 Colinton Road is a villa built around 1870-75, featuring two storeys and a three-bay rectangular plan, along with a rear wing and a modern extension. The exterior is made of cream sandstone with an ashlar front, while the rear and sides are constructed from squared and snecked rubble, with the rear wing showcasing bull-faced dressings. The building has a base course, a moulded string course above the ground floor, an eaves cornice, channelled quoins, chamfered reveals, and bracketed cills.

On the front elevation, there is a central entrance porch supported by Ionic columns and pilasters, topped with a dentilled cornice and a balustraded parapet. The porch features a shouldered architraved door surround, a carved and panelled door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight, and a tiled vestibule. Above the entrance, there is a single window at the first floor. To the left, a full-height canted window with a half-pyramidal roof is present, while to the right, there is a full-height rectangular projection with tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, topped with a half-piended roof. A large two-storey modern extension is located to the left.

The rear elevation displays a two-storey L-plan wing with a piended roof, accompanied by two single-storey lean-to extensions and unevenly arranged single windows. On the northeast elevation, there are single windows at the ground floor in the right and centre bays, and at the first floor in the right and right of centre. A shouldered and cornice wallhead stack is located to the left, while the rear wing features single windows on both the ground and first floors, a secondary door, and a coped wallhead stack.

The southwest elevation includes a two-storey modern extension in the right and centre bays, with single windows in the outer left bay. The rear wing has single windows and a coped wallhead stack. The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing at the front and four-pane windows at the rear and sides. The roof is covered with Scotch slate, featuring a piend and platform design, along with lead flashings. There are three wallhead stacks, including one shouldered wallhead stack to the northwest of the main block, and a moulded eaves gutter.

The interior was not seen in 1992. Surrounding the property is a high rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping to the rear and sides, a low rubble wall at the front, and square gatepiers with stop-chamfered arrises.