13 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh

13 Pilrig Street in Edinburgh is a pair of mirrored villas built around 1815. These two-storey and attic homes feature three bays and a basement. The front is made of cream sandstone with droved ashlar and polished dressings, while the rear and sides are constructed from coursed and squared rubble with stugged dressings. The buildings have a tall ashlar base course, a band cill course at both the ground and first floors, a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course, rusticated quoins, and architraved windows with cornices on the ground floor.

On the front elevation, the doorways are located in the inner bays and are framed by Ionic columned doorpieces, which are also corniced with a blocking course. The deep-set, two-leaf panelled doors have rectangular plate glass fanlights, and No 13 features a round-arched inner door with radial astragals to its fanlight. The remaining bays have single windows, and No 13 has a large corrugated iron box dormer.

The southeast elevation facing Arthur Street is gabled with an apex stack and has blocked windows in the outer bays. The northeast rear elevation has single windows and a tall central wallhead stack, along with two canted tripartite dormers and a slated roof extension to the left of the wallhead stack.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing in No 11 and 12-pane windows in No 13. The roof is covered in black slate with lead flashings, and there are two rendered brick apex stacks and one wallhead stack. The gutter recess divides the roof at the center.

The interior was not seen in 1993. The boundary walls consist of a low rubble wall with flat coping and original iron railings.