55 Dick Place, Edinburgh

R Thornton Shiells, 1862. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan villa with service wing to rear. Stugged, squared and snecked contrasting sandstones; cream polished ashlar window dressings with droved margins and chamfered reveals; pink-coloured relieving arches to ground floor windowsw; steep piended dormerheads to 1st floor windows; bargeboarded timber porch; single storey engaged columns with carved capitals at principal elevation anges.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central steeplyv pitched gabled timber porch with 4 detached timber piers, curvilinear bargeboards, and contrasting bands of purple and green fishscale slates. Tudor-arched architraved doorway; 2 detached and recessed columns with foliate capitals; panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Single window breaking eaves above with shouldered-arched corbelled hood. Bipartite windows at ground floor flanking centre to right and left with disengaged column-mullions and foliate capitals (single windows in bipartite openings); single windows above at 1st floor breaking eaves with piend-roofed dormerheads.

E ELEVATION: single window breaking eaves.

W ELEVATION: single window at ground floor; single window breaking eaves.

N ELEVATION: single storey piend-roofed service wing adjoining to outer right; single windows to N and W return; secondary entrance to E return. Small single window flanking centre to left; 2 round-arched stair windows above; single window at ground floor to outer left.

Plate glass sash and case windows to S; 12-pane, 8-pane and 4-pane elsewhere. Purple slate piended roof with contrasting fishscale banding; lead flashing; wallhead stacks with sawtooth coping to E and W; wallhead stack to N.

INTERIOR: encaustic tiled vestibule; glass-panelled vestibule door; ornate plaster cornices; timber fireplaces in principal rooms; cast-iron barleysugar balustrade with oak handrail; twin painted stair windows deep set in archtraved round arched with decorative floral impost blocks.

Low retaining weall to street, rising to E and W; remnants of iron railing s with star-shaped castings at pedestian gateway. High mutual boundary walls.