10 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh

10 Gayfield Square is a house built between 1790 and 1800, featuring two storeys and a basement, with two bays, including a single bay on the side elevation. The building is constructed from droved ashlar stone, with a rock-faced finish and broached margins at the basement level. The rear is made of coursed squared rubble, with droved long and short quoins and dressed margins. It has a dividing band between the basement and ground floor, a cill course at the ground floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern.

On the northeast (principal) elevation, there are steps leading to a platt that oversails the basement recess on the right. The entrance features a timber-panelled door with a letterbox fanlight, set in a cavetto-framed opening flanked by a Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece. To the left, there is an architraved and corniced window opening.

The southwest (rear) elevation includes tripartite windows in the right bay for both the ground and first floors, along with a canted tripartite dormer in the right bay of the roof.

The glazing predominantly consists of 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with 8-pane glazing in the flanking lights of the canted dormers and 4-pane glazing in the flanking lights of the tripartite windows. The dormers have timber fascias, grey slate haffits, and piend roofs. The front elevation features two rooflights, while the pitched roof is covered in graded grey slates, with stone skews and skewputts. A corniced rendered stack is located on the southeast side.

The property is bordered by spear-head and urn finialled cast iron railings set on ashlar copes, which edge the basement recess. There are also plain railings along the steps and platt.