5 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh

1790-1800. Classical, near-symmetrical, 4-bay, 2-storey and attic semi-detached villa. Droved ashlar with polished quoins and cills (coursed, squared rubble with droved quoins and margins to side and rear). Base course; eaves cornice. Long and short quoins (raised to principal elevation). Predominantly regular fenestration to front; irregular fenestration to side and rear.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: steps up to timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight and architraved and corniced doorpiece to inner left bay. Canted dormer to roof to left.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door to centre to ground floor; bipartite dormer to roof to right.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 low basement windows at pavement level.

GLAZING etc: 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front elevation and rear dormer; mixture of plate glass and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to rear and side elevations; plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to front dormer. Grey slate haffits and piend roofs to dormers; 2 rooflights to front elevation; 2 rooflights to rear elevation. Pitched roof; graded grey slate; stone skews and skewputts. 1 corniced, rendered gablehead stack with circular cans to NW gable.

BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS, GATEPIERS AND OVERTHROW: enclosing front garden, droved ashlar with polished copes wall with droved coping, surmounted by plain modern railings (not to NW wall); to centre, pair of rendered, corniced gatepiers with wrought-iron overthrow.