59 Dick Place, Edinburgh

59 Dick Place is a two-storey villa built around 1869, showcasing Scottish Renaissance architectural details. Originally designed as a two-bay, square-plan structure, it was extended to a three-bay, L-plan layout with a porch added to the west in 1885 by architect R Paterson. The villa features stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone masonry with polished dressings, a base course, rounded angles on the main house, string courses that divide the floors and run along the eaves, and crowstepped gables.

On the south elevation, the entrance features an open porch in a loggia to the outer left, supported by three detached columns on ashlar dies, with two columns connected by a stone balustrade. Above, there is an entablature and a dentilled cornice, along with a stone corbel with a pyramidal finial to the outer left. The porch includes a panelled door and a leaded window to the left, while a pedimented bipartite window breaks the eaves at the first floor, jettied out above the porch. To the right of the main house, there is a full-height canted window, a blank tablet between the floors, a gablehead window, and a corbelled parapet adorned with thistle finials. A single window is present at the ground floor to the outer right, with a blank shield above, and a first-floor window that breaks the eaves in a fleur-de-lys finialled pediment. A secondary entrance was added between the last two mentioned bays in 1951. There is also a garage adjoining to the outer right and a service wing behind with a half gablet at the first floor.

The east elevation features a two-storey service wing that clasps the angle to the outer right. The west elevation has single and bipartite windows at the ground floor, with a string course dividing the floors to the outer right, and a blank tablet set in the gable to the outer left.

The villa has UPVC replacement windows designed to match the original plate glass and four-pane sash and case glazing. It is topped with a grey slate piended roof, has corniced gablehead stacks, a skylight to the west, and retains some original rainwater goods, including moulded eaves guttering and scroll bracketed skewputts.

The interior was not seen in 1990. The property is enclosed by low coped boundary walls along the street and higher mutual boundary walls.