63, 63A Colinton Road, Edinburgh

The property at 63, 63A Colinton Road, Edinburgh, is a single-storey and attic, irregularly planned villa built around 1866, and subsequently doubled in size in 1885 by George Beattie & Sons. It is constructed of cream sandstone with square and snecked rubble walls, featuring droved ashlar dressings to the front and northwest elevations. The windows have stop-chamfered reveals and ashlar mullions, while the main gables are adorned with ornately carved bargeboards and finials; other gables and dormers have plain bargeboards. Overhanging eaves expose the rafters, and there are grooved and corniced stacks.

The southeast (front) elevation has three bays. A gabled timber porch with a kingpost, timber gablehead, carved brackets, and a pendant sits at the centre, and contains a panelled door with a tiled vestibule to the return. There is a first-floor window that breaks the eaves within a jerkin-headed dormer. To the left, a gabled bay has a canted ashlar window at ground floor, rising to a smaller canted timber window at first floor, and a timber-boarded gablehead. To the right, a gabled bay features a canted window with a half-piend roof at ground floor, and a bipartite window in the gablehead.

The northwest (Colinton Road) elevation displays a three-bay arrangement, including a blank gabled bay to the right with a kingpost and wallhead stack, a central single window, and a bay to the left with a single ground-floor window and a bipartite first-floor window breaking the eaves in a gabled dormerhead with a kingpost.

The northeast (rear) elevation is M-gabled, with two wallhead stacks, and includes a single-storey garage at a right angle to the southeast. A modern forestair is located to the right of the rear bay, alongside a single ground-floor window and a bipartite gablehead window. A secondary door and garage are situated to the left.

An advanced gabled wing to the right of the southeast elevation has a single window and a wallhead stack, with further single windows to the returns (some modern). A gabled bay to the left has a kingpost and wallhead stack, and a modern, single-storey, flat-roofed, half-glazed extension.

A small, early 20th-century gabled timber garden house is set within the garden, featuring a mock-half-timbered gable and a curved timber parapet to the front, along with single windows to the side elevations.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing. The roof is slate with lead flashings, complemented by five wallhead stacks and a central stack. The interior was not inspected in 1992.

Boundary walls constructed of rubble, with semi-circular coping over a pedestrian entrance at the northwest, and a low rubble wall with saddleback coping to the front, enclose the site. A pedestrian gate in the chamfered northeast corner has cast-iron gates and original cast-iron gatepiers on panelled ashlar pedestals.