Mount Pleasant, 75 Kirkbrae, Edinburgh

Mount Pleasant is a picturesque villa located at 75 Kirkbrae, Edinburgh, designed in the style of Wardrop and Reid or Peddie and Kinnear, and dated 1868. This single storey and attic building is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone, featuring polished ashlar dressings and timber sash and case windows. It has overhanging eaves with timber barge boards and bracketed eaves, along with king-post details on the gables. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are ashlar banded and corniced stacks.

On the west elevation, there is a lean-to slated porch at the ground floor, which includes a gabled dormer and a door in the re-entrant to the south. An original lean-to conservatory is located to the north. Above this, a large shouldered wallhead stack is present, with a single attic window to the right that breaks the eaves in a gabled dormer topped with a finial.

The north elevation features a bipartite window to the left, with a first-floor window above that also breaks the eaves in a gabled dormer with a finial. To the right, there is an advanced gabled bay that is canted at the ground floor, showcasing a five-light window, and corbelled to a square at the first floor with a bipartite window.

On the east elevation, there is a later canted window at the ground floor and a dormer above at the first floor. A single storey service wing adjoins to the south, which has a central door flanked by bipartite windows.

The property includes gatepiers and garden walls to Kirkbrae, featuring a pair of corniced panelled ashlar gatepiers, with a pedestrian gate to the right that has a stone lintel, along with adjoining rubble-coped garden walls.

To the east of the house, there is a greenhouse made of cast iron and timber, which retains its original coloured glass and has a cast-iron finialled roof ridge.

A picturesque timber summerhouse, built around 1900, is located to the northwest of the house. It has a lead roof and is ornamented with cut logs and painted green finials, along with coloured glass windows.

In front of the house, there is a fountain featuring a boy with a vase, painted white and set on a plinth.