Wellfield, 4 Dick Place, Edinburgh

Wellfield is a villa dating to around 1860, situated at 4 Dick Place, Edinburgh. It is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical building with a single-storey service wing attached to the west. The villa is constructed with squared and snecked rubble stone on the sides and rear, while the north elevation is faced with polished, coursed ashlar. Features include base and eaves courses, a cornice, channelled quoins, architraved window surrounds, and bracketed cills.

The north (entrance) elevation features a central, projecting porch with two Ionic pilasters and two detached Ionic columns supporting an entablature and balustrade above the first-floor window. The doorway has a segmental-arched surround with a keystone and modillioned lugs, a panelled door, and a plate glass fanlight. Bipartite windows with dentilled cornices are positioned on either side of the ground floor, with single windows above.

A later, single-storey, mansard-roofed service wing extends to the outer right, incorporating two-storey windows and a chamfered angle. The west elevation has a bipartite window at ground floor and a single window at first floor. The east elevation showcases mansarded and gabled service wings, with two single windows and a secondary entrance at ground floor, and three mansard windows and a gablehead window above.

The south elevation is notable for its twin, keystoned, round-arched stair windows at the centre of the first floor, with a secondary entrance below. Late 19th-century full-height canted windows flank the left and right sides. A small glass lean-to conservatory is clasped to the angle on the outer right. The service wing at the outer left includes advanced bipartite windows at ground floor and a long fixed and casement window above.

The windows are a mix of four-pane and plate glass sash and case, with long, lower panels and short upper panels. The roof is a grey slate piended roof with lead flashing and four wallhead stacks featuring deep, stone-bracketed cornices, as well as moulded eaves guttering.

Inside, the vestibule door is glazed and tripartite, featuring decorative woodwork, dentils, and original features such as ornate plaster cornices, moulded panelled doors with lugged, architraved surrounds and dentilled cornices, dado panelling, and fluted pilasters with capitals.

The setting includes a low retaining wall to the street, terminating in panelled and corniced ashlar piers. A pedestrian gateway is flanked by identical piers, with further pedestrian gateways adjoining the house to the east and west. High, mutual boundary walls also define the property.