5 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh

5 Gayfield Square is a semi-detached villa built between 1790 and 1800, showcasing a classical design with near-symmetrical features. The building has four bays and is two stories high with an attic. It is constructed from droved ashlar, featuring polished quoins and cills, while the side and rear are made of coursed, squared rubble with droved quoins and margins. The villa includes a base course and an eaves cornice, with long and short quoins raised on the principal elevation. The front has predominantly regular fenestration, while the side and rear exhibit irregular patterns.

On the northeast (principal) elevation, there are steps leading up to a timber-panelled door that includes a letterbox fanlight and an architraved and corniced doorpiece located in the inner left bay. A canted dormer is positioned on the roof to the left. The southwest (rear) elevation features a timber-panelled door at the center of the ground floor and a bipartite dormer to the right. The northwest (side) elevation has two low basement windows at pavement level.

The glazing consists of 4-pane timber sash and case windows on the front elevation and rear dormer, while the rear and side elevations have a mix of plate glass and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The front dormer has plate glass glazing. The roof is pitched and covered with graded grey slate, featuring stone skews and skewputts, along with two rooflights on both the front and rear elevations. There is one corniced, rendered gablehead stack with circular cans on the northwest gable.

The property is enclosed by a boundary wall made of droved ashlar with polished coping, topped with plain modern railings, except for the northwest wall. At the center, there are a pair of rendered, corniced gatepiers with a wrought-iron overthrow, which provide access to the front garden.