39 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

39 Jeffrey Street is a substantial, asymmetrical Scots Baronial house dating to 1886, designed by James Lessels. It is now subdivided. The house is set back from the street behind a low coped wall with iron railings. A prominent feature is the central curved bay, which begins on the first floor and rises above the eaves as a turret. This turret has decorative machicolations, a fish-scale slated conical roof, and a baluster finial. The exterior is constructed of bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone, with polished dressings, and rubble to the rear.

The north elevation, facing Jeffrey Street, features a timber-panelled front door, original brass door handle, and a plate glass fanlight in a roll-moulded shoulder-arched surround, below a balustraded first-floor balcony. A mullioned and transomed window with bowed glass is positioned on the first floor of the turret. There is an advanced crow-stepped gable to the right, with a four-light transomed window on the ground floor. A pentice-roofed mullioned and transomed oriel is corbelled out at the first floor. A kingposted timber dormer is located in the attic to the left.

The west elevation has a crow-stepped advanced gable and a segmental-pedimented dormer. A modern timber door serves No. 41, alongside a further single-storey wing with a timber door. The south (rear) elevation has a plain advanced gable and bipartite windows, along with a recessed section containing irregular fenestration. A single-storey wing extends from the rear, featuring a rear timber door to the garden and two small windows.

Plate glass is set in timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with a flat roof over the single-storey rear wing. Corniced gable and wallhead stacks are topped with moulded octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interior includes a vestibule with a half-glazed door, a red herringbone-tiled hallway, a dado rail, cornicing, brackets and consoles, and a floor level alcove. There is plain cornicing in a study and in committee rooms, along with timber architraves and shutters. A scale and platt stair rises from the ground to the second floor, incorporating winders. The stair has painted balusters, with the banister and newels unpainted. A large rectangular attic cupola is also present. The first-floor drawing room, now divided into two rooms, has timber-panelled architraves and dado, an ornate shell-moulded cornice, a pale grey marble torus-moulded chimneypiece with bay leaf, berry and ribbon carving, and a blue and white 'Delft' tiled slip. A second-floor bedroom has a pale grey plain chimneypiece, a cast-iron grate, and a glazed tile hearth.

The boundary walls consist of a plain iron gate and railings set on a low coped wall to the front. A high, coped random rubble boundary wall runs northwest to southeast to the right of the house.