5, 5A Cluny Avenue, Edinburgh

David Bell, 1890. 2-storey and attic 2-bay double villa with Scottish Renaissance details. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble iwth polished ashlar dressings. Base course and rounded reveals to bays; chamfered reveals to remaining windows; corniced windows at ground floor; moulded cill course at 1st floor; eaves cornice; ashlar mullions; tall corniced stacks with rounded coping.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: elevations mirrored about centre; inner bays with bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor, tripartite timber dormers with finialled half-piend roofs with bracketted overhanging eaves. Advanced gabled outer bays with 2-storey canted windows with fireclay balustrades, corniced windows with smi-circular open pediment in gablehead. Recessed entrance porches (see below). Single storey detached garage to outer right.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay; central single-storey rectangular closed entrance porch with fireclay balustrade, bipartite window with leaded paned and stained glass roundels, round-arched corniced entrance doorway on return to S, scroll-flanked carved panel above with urn and foliage, round-arched panelled door, tiled vestibule; single window at 1st floor above; tripartite timber dormer with catslide roof. Outer bays with single windows and shouldered wallhead stacks; bipartite timber dormer with half-piend finialled roof to left.

W ELEVATION: mirrored E elevation.

Timber sash and case windows, 9-pane upper sashes, plate glass glazing to lower sashes. Green slat roof, red ridge tiles; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 transverse stack. Moulded ashlar skews, scalloped skewputts. Moulded eaves gutter and gutterheads.

INTERIOR: 1st floor drawing room with 17th century style plaster ceiling and swagged frieze, ornamental arch to bay with carved anf fluted pilasters.

Tall rubble wall to rear and side with semi-circular coping, low wall to front with later gates.