54 St Albans Road, Edinburgh

David Robertson 1880. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan Italianate villa with 3-stage entrance tower and projecting service wing; subdivided (1944). Squared and snecked sandstone; stugged ashlar with polished dressings to S elevation. Base, dividing band, and blocking courses; stone bracketed cornice; rusticated quoins; architraved window surrounds; segmental-arched windows at 1st floor tower bay and S elevation.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATIONS: steps up to entrance in 1st stage of recessed tower bay to outer left; keystoned round-arched doorpiece with pilasters flanking, paterae details, and carved consoles supporting cornice and balustrade; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor; piend-roofed and weathervaned towerhead breaking eaves above in square section, with tripartite round-arched keystoned windows, blank panelled aprons and bracketed cornice to each face. Advanced tripartie window with cornice and balustrade to centre bay ground floor; tripartite window above. Full-height advanced canted window in bay to outer right.

E ELEVATION: single window at ground floor to outer left; single window at 1st floor centre. Single storey piend-roofed wing; flat-roofed garage attached.

W ELEVATION: tower bay to outer right; margin-pane window at ground floor; single window at 1st floor. Margin-paned window at ground floor centre; small single window above. Advanced canted window with cornice and bratishing to outer left; bipartite window above.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; 2 pedimented canted dormers to S, 1 to W; 2 shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks; 1 centre stack; moulded octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: decorative plaster cornices; tripartite vestibule door; encaustic tiled vestibule.

Low coped rubble boundary wall to street, rising to E; 2 ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles and pyramidal coping. High mutual boundary walls.