9 Palmerston Road, Edinburgh

Dated 1868, 9 Palmerston Road is a two-storey, three-bay Baronial style villa with a three-storey tower and a service wing, later subdivided in 1962. The villa is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with stugged and snecked ashlar dressings on the east elevation. It features base and eaves courses, crowstepped gables and gablets, skewputts, and chamfered reveals.

The east, or entrance, elevation has an advanced central entrance tower with rounded angles at ground and first floor levels. A roll-moulded doorway is topped with a square blank tablet and a hood-mould, leading to a deep-set panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. A gun loop is present to the right of the doorway. A single, shouldered window is located above at first floor level, with another slit gun loop on the return to the right. The third storey of the tower is capped by a tall, corbelled cap-house with a crenellated string course and a single window with a bracketed cill framed by a Scottish Renaissance style surround and pediment. Gable crowsteps above this incorporate a small initialled panel ("JP") to the right, with a small window to the north elevation of the cap-house. A corniced tripartite window is set into the ground floor to the outer right, and a narrower tripartite window sits above, breaking the eaves in the gablehead above a datestone. A full-height canted window is on the outer left of the main house, corbelled to square above the eaves in gabled dormers with a narrow window. A more recent, single-storey, flat-roofed harled addition from 1962 is attached to the outer left.

The north elevation is M-gabled with a bipartite window on the ground floor, a single window on the first floor, and a single window in the gablehead to the left. The south elevation includes a single-storey addition to the outer right, a single-storey service wing to the outer left, and a central ground-floor window. A single window is offset within the main gable to the outer right, with two single windows breaking the eaves in dormerheads.

The west elevation showcases a single-storey service wing. The windows are predominantly plate glass sash and case, although some border glazing pattern sash and case windows are also present. A grey slate gabled roof with 19th-century dormers to the south and west is covered with lead flashing. The building features five corniced gablehead stacks, gablet skewputts and crowsteps on the towerhead, scroll-bracketted skewputts elsewhere, moulded eaves guttering, and some original rainwater goods. The interiors were not inspected in 1990.

Low boundary walls are present along the street, with two pairs of coped ashlar gatepiers featuring chamfered angles and incised panels, similar to those at number 2 Palmerston Road. High coped mutual boundary walls also exist. Garages dating from 1962 are located to the rear.