40 Dick Place, Edinburgh

42 Dick Place, Edinburgh, was designed by William Hardie Kininmonth in 1934. It is a double villa, originally conceived as two symmetrical houses, and built in the Arts and Crafts style. An extension to the west was added in 1939, creating a nine-bay arrangement. No. 40 remains in its original form, while No. 42 has been altered in a sympathetic style, and includes a later double garage incorporated in the same style, with herring-bone patterned doors.

The house is built with a harled brick exterior, a dark grey pantile roof, and an exposed brick base course. The windows are small-paned and flush with the wall surface.

The north elevation (the entrance front) is symmetrical, with No. 40 featuring an entrance pavilion to the outer left, a deeply recessed door with small-pane glazing, and a piend-roofed dormer breaking the eaves. No. 42 mirrors this design but includes a one-bay extension to the west with additional ground floor windows and two piend-roofed dormers above. A pitched-roof link connects the house to the garage, housing a repositioned secondary entrance and a window.

The east elevation features two single windows and a piend-roofed canted dormer with a bipartite window. The west elevation has a single piend-roofed tripartite dormer window.

The south elevation (facing the garden) shows a pavilion with a tripartite window on the outer right of No. 40, and a bipartite window in the bay to the inner right. No. 42 mirrors this, with the added bay to the outer left containing French windows and two piend-roofed dormers, and lengthened windows centrally and to the outer right.

The windows are primarily small-paned, fixed or casement type, flush with the wall plane. The roof is piended, covered in dark grey “Ideal” pantiles and ridge tiles, with grey slates at the entrance pavilion of No. 40 and along the eaves of No. 42. The chimneys are coped and harled, with a blank band beneath the coping, and there is eaves guttering.

The interiors were not inspected in 1990.

The property is bounded by high coped rubble walls to the street and boundaries, with a harled brick mutual wall separating the properties.