5 Spylaw Park, Edinburgh

5 Spylaw Park in Edinburgh is a two-storey, T-plan suburban villa built in 1910, showcasing the late Arts and Crafts style. The house features an M-gable on the south side that sweeps down to the west, forming a porch. It has a jerkin-headed gable that jetties out at the first floor to the west, with a slightly lower service wing to the east, which has a swept roof, and a piend-roofed pavilion to the south. The prominent red tile roof has deep swept eaves, and the exterior is finished in painted harl with painted sandstone cills and tile mini-string courses above the principal windows, along with a basecourse.

On the west elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is an advanced gable to the left featuring a glazed door with side-lights at ground level and a quadripartite casement above. To the right, there is a similar casement at ground level. The swept-roof porch is recessed to the right and supported on a rendered pier, leading to a timber panelled front door with top lights.

The south elevation, facing the garden, has an irregular arrangement of windows on the M-gable, with a single-storey square-plan pavilion advanced to the right that includes tripartite casements on each side. The roof sweeps down over the service wing on the outer right.

The east elevation has an advanced section on the outer right, which features a timber-boarded back door flanked by windows. There is a slightly later wall from the 1920s with tiled coping and an arched gateway that is advanced from the right of the door.

The north elevation, which is the rear, has an irregular fenestration pattern, with a gable at the centre that includes a tripartite casement at the first floor. There is an asymmetrical shouldered stack to the right and a lean-to outshot at the centre of the left bay, which was formerly a WC and larder.

The villa has metal casements with leaded lights, coped rendered stacks with red clay cans, and a red tile roof. The cast-iron rainwater goods include a decorative hopper on the south side.

The property is enclosed by a coped random rubble boundary wall topped with a fence.