37 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

37 Lauder Road is a double villa built in 1897 by Thomas T Paterson. It is a two-storey structure with a basement and attic, featuring a symmetrical rectangular plan with six bays. The villa has been subdivided since 1947. The exterior is constructed from stugged and snecked rubble, accented with contrasting droved ashlar dressings and quoins. Notable architectural details include a base course, an eaves cornice, and chamfered reveals.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has outer bays that are slightly advanced, with ashlar porches located in the re-entrant angles of the second and fifth bays. The doorways feature Gibbsian doorpieces, architraved and banded doorpieces with keystones and pulvinated friezes, along with panelled doors and 10-pane fanlights. Above, there are coped parapets. The ground floor has single windows in the centre bays, while the upper floor features bipartite windows. The outer bays boast full-height canted windows with a moulded blocking course and finials, and there is a wire-mesh fenced balcony to the dormer on the right.

On the northeast elevation, there is a single window at the ground floor and two windows at the first floor. The windows throughout the villa are sash and case, with six-pane upper panels and plate glass lower panels. The roof is a grey slate mansard style, featuring four flat-roofed dormer windows, one of which has been altered to serve as a two-leaf balcony door. There is also a single dormer on the south side, along with four tall shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks and a single mutual stack. The eaves guttering is moulded, and some original rainwater goods remain.

Inside No 37, there are encaustic tiles, a moulded plaster cornice, and a glass-panelled tripartite vestibule door. The property is bordered by a low saddleback wall along the street.