129 Grange Loan, Edinburgh

129 Grange Loan is a two-storey villa built in 1872 by F.T. Pilkington on a steeply sloping site. The villa is of irregular plan and is constructed from squared and snecked, stugged cream ashlar with contrasting grey polished dressings. It features a base course with splayed buttresses, an acanthus dividing cornice, an eaves cornice, and stop-chamfered reveals.

The north elevation, the main entrance front, is essentially five bays, including recessed bays to the extreme left and right. A pierced trefoil balustrade leads to steps up to an open porch set within a re-entrant angle. The porch is supported by a single column with a composite capital incorporating carved heads, supporting an entablature and a piended fishscale roof with scalloped flashing. An architraved, shouldered-arched doorway gives access to a panelled door, above which is a plate glass fanlight. A single window is located on the first floor above the door. The second bay is advanced and gabled, with a bipartite, shouldered window set in a recessed segmental-arched panel at ground level, and a stylized Tudor bipartite window on the first floor. A large circular patera is set in the gablehead. The first bay is recessed, with a stylized Tudor bipartite window on the principal floor, and a single segmental-arched window on the first floor. Two segmental-arched single windows are located at ground level in the fourth bay; a circular patera is set between the floors above, and a dormerhead styled Tudor bipartite window sits on the first floor. The fifth bay is recessed, with steps leading to a secondary entrance and a segmental-arched dormerhead window on the first floor.

The east elevation has an irregular disposition of windows at basement, ground and first floor levels, with a segmental-arched blank panel set below a wallhead stack. The west elevation is largely blank. The south (garden) elevation is two-storey and basement, with five near-symmetrical bays. It features two-storey canted windows with bipartite windows above in the outer left and right bays. A secondary entrance is located at basement level in the second bay, with a single window above on the first floor. Single windows are located at basement and first floor levels in the fourth bay. Single windows are present to all floors in the third (central) bay.

Plate glass sash and case windows are throughout. The roof is grey slate, with swept eaves and heavily coped gablehead stacks. A coped wallhead stack is present on the south side, and coped gables and dormerheads feature gablet skewputts and stone finials.

The interior includes marble flooring to the vestibule, a glazed tripartite vestibule door, decorative plaster cornices, and original fireplaces.