7 Mayville Gardens, Edinburgh

13 Mayville Gardens in Edinburgh is a building designed by Hyppolyte J Blanc in 1881. It consists of two symmetrical cottage-style terraces located in a cul-de-sac. Each terrace is made up of four nearly mirrored pairs of two-bay single-storey houses, featuring piend-roofed dormer heads that break the eaves at the first floor. Attached to the terraces are two-storey L-shaped pavilions with bargeboards that face Laverockbank Road. The exterior is constructed from snecked, stugged ashlar with droved dressings, and the openings have stop-chamfered reveals. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, although the transoms have been removed at No 10. The eaves are overhanging and supported by brackets.

On the north and south elevations facing Mayville Gardens, each pair of houses has doors leading to the inner bays, sheltered by timber-bracketed slated hoods. The timber panelled doors (with No 3 being replaced) have rectangular fanlights above. There is a rectangular projecting bay at ground floor level with a slated piend roof and a three-light window. Above this, there is a three-light window in the gablehead that also breaks the eaves, accompanied by a piend-roofed dormer. Flanking this are canted bays at ground floor with four-light windows, and above, two-light windows in the gableheads, also breaking the eaves with piend roofs. The gable ends of Nos 10 and 11 on Laverockbank Road feature one off-set window on each floor, with a dividing course that steps up to frame a decorative plaque inscribed 'Mayville Gardens.' The bargeboards are scalloped and bracketted, with kingposts.

The west elevation facing Laverockbank Road has outer bays that are advanced, featuring three-light windows at ground level and two-light windows at the first floor, with jerkin-headed gables. There are doors at the re-entrant angles, although the hoods have been removed. The inner bays contain a canted four-light window at ground level, with a three-light window above in the gablehead breaking the eaves, also featuring a piend-roofed dormer. At No 10, all stone mullions and transoms have been removed.

The rear elevations are regularly fenestrated and constructed from coursed sandstone rubble. The sash and case windows have plate glass, with mullions and transoms replaced at No 10. The roofs are covered with graded grey slates, and the dormers have decorative terracotta ridges and finials. The chimneys at the rear wallhead are coped and have been rebuilt with concrete facing at the ridges. Some decorative rainwater hoppers are present on the cast-iron downpipes.