1 Ettrick Road, Edinburgh

This is a two-storey and attic villa, built in 1891 for Edward Calvert. It is rectangular in plan, with a rear extension, and stands in Edinburgh. The front of the building is constructed of cream sandstone ashlar, while the rear and sides are of stugged and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. A base course and band course above the first floor are visible, along with eaves cornices featuring an incised key pattern. Raised quoins are present on the rear elevation. The front windows have elaborate foliate capitals and panelled aprons at the first floor level.

The southwest-facing elevation, fronting Ettrick Road, features carved and panelled angle pilasters that extend around the corners of the building, with paired pilasters and foliage capitals at the first floor. The central entrance bay is recessed under a segmental arch. The door itself is deep-set, with narrow sidelights and a rectangular plate glass fanlight set beneath a moulded segmental arch and pediment. The pediment is supported by paired columns of polished pink granite with Ionic ashlar capitals on panelled pedestals, and a single window is positioned above the entrance. A two-storey segmental-arched canted window with a shallow half-piend roof is on the right side of the elevation, featuring polished pink granite columnar mullions. To the left, there are slightly-projecting tripartite windows with segmental-arched lights and polished pink granite columnar mullions. Three modern gabled stained timber dormers are visible in the roof.

The northeast-facing rear elevation incorporates a single-storey and attic service block, extending across the entire length and featuring a mansard roof and attic windows breaking the eaves. A Venetian stair window with stained glass is set within a dormer, flanked by corniced wallhead stacks.

On the southeast elevation, there are three bays with segmental-arched windows, the tympana of which have been filled in. Each floor features a window in each bay. Ashlar mullioned bipartite windows are present in the right bay. An ashlar box dormer, featuring an ashlar mullioned bipartite window and a frieze of incised key pattern framed by corniced wallhead stacks, is also visible, and the base is scroll-flanked, though the right side has been altered.

The northwest elevation mirrors this arrangement, with a blank right bay, an ashlar mullioned bipartite window in the centre bay at ground floor level with a single window above, and further ashlar mullioned bipartite windows in the left bay. The dormer and wallhead stack treatment corresponds to that of the southeast elevation. Plate glass glazing is found in timber sash and case windows. The roof is a green slate piend and platform construction with lead flashings, six wallhead stacks, and one central stack topped with tall ornamental grooved cans.

The interior of the building was not inspected in 1992.

A tall stugged rubble boundary wall originally existed, though the gatepiers and ornamental cast-iron gates are later replacements.