37 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

Thomas T Paterson, 1897. 2-storey with basement and attic, 6-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan double villa; No 37 subdivided (1947). Stugged and snecked rubble with contrasting droved ashlar dressings and quoins. Base course; eaves cornice; chemfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) elevation: outer bays slightly advanced and ashlar porches set in re-entrant angles at 2nd and 5th bays; Gibbsian doorpieces, architraved and banded doorpieces with keystones and pulvinated friezes; panelled doors; 10-pane fanlights; coped parapets above. Single windows at ground floor to centre bays; bipartite windows above; full-height canted windows to outer bays with moulded blocking course and finials (wire-mesh fenced balcony to dormer right).

N ELEVATION: single window at ground floor, 2 windows at 1st floor.

Sash and case windows with 6-pane upper panels and plate glass lower panels. Grey slate mansard roof; 4 flat-roofed dormer windows, 1 altered as 2-leaf balcony door; single dormer to S; 4 tall shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks and single mutual stack; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR NO 37: encaustic tiles, moulded plaster cornice, glass-panelled tripartite vestubule door.

Low saddleback wall to street.