17 Oswald Road, Edinburgh

15 Oswald Road in Edinburgh is a two-storey villa designed by David MacGibbon of MacGibbon & Ross in 1881. The building has an irregular plan with a service wing to the west and features Baronial architectural details, including an entrance tower. It is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and has a string course above the ground floor, as well as overhanging eaves.

The north elevation, which is the entrance side, has six bays, including the entrance tower and a two-bay service wing on the outer right. The entrance tower is polygonal and advanced, featuring a doorpiece with roll-moulded angles, a blocking course with a pediment and ball finials, a two-leaf panelled door, and a plate glass fanlight. There are single lights flanking the entrance and three lights on the first floor that break the eaves. Below the cornice, there are fielded panels, and the tower has a facetted pyramidal roof with a corniced wallhead stack and a weathervane finial. To the left of the entrance, there is a mullioned and transomed stair window, and modern glazed doors lead to the ground. An advanced tripartite window bridges the advanced lop-sided M-gabled bays on the outer left, with two single windows above on the first floor and a basket-arched window in the higher gablehead to the left. There are single windows in the fourth and fifth bays, and first-floor windows that break the eaves in gabletted dormerheads. The lower service wing has a single window in the first bay, a bipartite window at ground level in the gabled second bay, and a single window in the gablehead.

The west elevation features a single-storey piend-roofed lean-to at the centre with a gable above, and basket-arched windows can be seen in the M-gable behind the service wing.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate gabled roof, timber bargeboards and finials on the gables and dormers, corniced wallhead stacks, and moulded octagonal cans. Some original rainwater goods, including hoppers, are still present.

The interiors were not seen in 1991. The property also includes two pairs of ashlar gatepiers with roll-moulded angles, pyramidal caps, and ball finials, as well as high coped boundary and mutual walls. There is a pitched roof garage to the west of the house.