4 Long Green, Dalmeny House Policies, Edinburgh

4 Long Green, located within the Dalmeny House Policies in Edinburgh, is an asymmetrical row of four single-storey and two-storey cottages dating from the 18th to mid-19th century. The cottages have entrance elevations facing southwest and are harled with margins, some of which are stop-chamfered. Each entrance door features gablet canopies supported by wooden brackets, and the buildings have cast-iron rainwater goods and skews.

Number 1 Long Green, from the mid-19th century, is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a centrally placed two-leaf timber door flanked by single windows. To the right, there is a single-storey wing made of rubble, accompanied by a semicircular coped wall.

Number 2 Long Green, dating from the 18th century, is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a centrally located door at the ground level, flanked by single windows, with additional single windows aligned above. It also features a single-storey flat-roofed wing to the left.

Number 3 Long Green is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a centrally placed two-leaf timber door flanked by single windows.

Number 4 Long Green is similar in style, being a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a door at the centre flanked by single windows. To the right, there is a sympathetic addition featuring a single window, along with a tall rubble and semicircular wall.

The rear elevations include a series of single-storey and attic wings, as well as single-storey gabled and piend-roofed extensions. There is also a later brick addition to the east.

The cottages feature timber sash and case windows, some of which have been enlarged. The roofs are graded grey slate, with Number 1 having a jerkin-headed roof and a purple slate wing, along with large flush rooflights. The buildings have harled and shouldered ridge stacks, harled gablehead stacks, and octagonal ridge and gablehead stacks, all coped with circular cans.