5 Claremont Park, Edinburgh

5 Claremont Park is a classical villa designed by Thomas Hamilton around 1827. The building is two stories high with three bays, featuring a taller first floor and a basement, along with single-storey pavilions and screen walls. The front is finished in polished ashlar sandstone, while the sides and rear are made of coursed rubble. Architectural details include a base course, a cill course for the first-floor windows, a blocking course, and an eaves cornice. The pavilions and screen walls are unified by a parapet. The main block has architraved openings, with panelled aprons below the ground floor openings and projecting cills for the pavilion openings.

On the north (principal) elevation, the entrance door is located in the center bay. It features a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, framed by a doorpiece supported by distyle fluted Ionic columns in antis, topped with an entablature. To the outer right is a later full-height canted window, separated by a string course. The outer left and center first-floor openings have painted cast iron ornamental window guards. Each pavilion has a single window, and the outer bays contain depressed arched carriage doors with voussoirs. There are also basement windows.

The east and west elevations each have a single central window on the first floor. The south elevation was not visible during the last inspection in 1995. The villa features plate glass timber sash and case windows throughout, with grills at the basement level. The roof is covered with grey slate, designed as a piend and platformed roof. Ashlar wallhead stacks are present, each comprising seven grouped octagonal shafts with bases and cornices.

The boundary wall consists of an ashlar dwarf wall with coping along the street. Square-section ashlar gatepiers topped with shallow pyramidal caps are accompanied by cast-iron lamp brackets.