Newlands, 24 Midmar Gardens, Edinburgh

Newlands is a single storey and attic irregular-plan Arts and Crafts villa built in 1907 by Louis J C Darge. The villa features cream and pink sandstone, with a droved pink ashlar base and dressings, cream rake-jointed squared and snecked rubble, and render to the rear kitchen wing. It has a battered base, ashlar mullions and transoms, and deeply overhanging bracketed eaves.

The front elevation has two bays with five-light transomed canted windows and quadripartite windows above, which are topped with small catslide canopies over double gambrel dormers. The entrance elevation features a flat-roofed projecting square-plan entrance porch on the left, with overhanging eaves and a glazed section above the battered base. The entrance door is part glazed and located on the flank, with decorative consoles and etched glass in the lowest panes. Inside, there is a black and white marble floor. Above the porch, a parapeted rubble stair tower breaks the eaves, featuring four narrow stair windows with leaded panes and a tall shouldered wallhead stack on the flank. To the right, there are two bipartite windows with timber mullions and a tripartite tile-hung dormer. The outer right side has a kitchen wing with single windows.

The south elevation has three bays, with two rectangular projections featuring timber mullions and bracketed timber canopies on the left. To the right, there is a canted inglenook with small stained glass windows on the chamfered sides and a tall chamfered wallhead stack. There are also two rectangular tile-hung dormers.

On the rear elevation, the projecting kitchen wing on the left has a piend roof and small bipartite windows on the end wall, along with a raised wallhead that has a bull's-eye window on the south flank. A verandah with timber mullions and a balustrade is located in the re-entrant angle to the right, featuring a French door flanked by windows and a single window to the left. The villa has small-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass lower sashes on the front and casement windows in the dormers. The roof is a combination of piend and platformed tiled styles, with two wallhead stacks and two central stacks.

The front of the property is bordered by a low stepped rubble wall with saddleback coping, while a tall wall stands at the rear. The interior was not seen in 1992.