29 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

The building at 29 Lauder Road, Edinburgh, is a two-storey villa dating to around 1875. It is a rectangular structure with a recessed entrance bay to one side. The exterior is primarily of roughly stugged and coursed ashlar stone, with polished dressings, while the east side is faced with squared and coursed rubble. A base course, dividing band, and eaves course are present, along with rusticated quoins, chamfered reveals, and a timber bracketed cornice.

The west-facing (entrance) elevation features a recessed entrance bay to the left. This bay originally contained a porch but was raised in 1907 to resemble a tower with breaking eaves. The doorpiece is segmental-arched, lugged, architraved, and keystoned, flanked by pilasters, and contains a panelled door with glazed upper panels and a plate glass fanlight. A former pierced ashlar balustrade above the porch has been incorporated into a first-floor addition, featuring a cornice and stone finials. To the right of the entrance bay is an advanced bipartite window at ground floor, surmounted by a pierced stone window guard with stone finials to the first-floor bipartite window. A full-height canted window is located to the far right, and a bracketed decorative cast iron balcony is present.

The north elevation has two stained glass, round-arched windows with raised surrounds, bracketed cills, impost blocks, and keystones, located in the advanced entrance bay at ground floor. Similar windows are found on the first floor. The south elevation has two windows at first floor and a single-storey addition linking the property to number 27 Lauder Road, likely built around 1974. Two raised chimney breasts flank the center, breaking the eaves in tall, corniced stacks bridged by a panelled ashlar parapet.

The east elevation includes a large, L-plan conservatory, reconstructed in 1920. It features a harled base course, small pane glazing with a lead-paned clerestory, piended roof, and a polygonal corner tower. A central two-storey service wing is also present, along with a modern two-storey addition with a canted window at first floor.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows, and a stained glass two-leaf casement window above the main entrance. A grey slate piended roof features lead flashing and molded eaves guttering. Two corniced wallhead stacks are linked above the eaves to the south, as are two stacks to the south of the entrance bay. A gablehead stack is located on the service wing to the east.

The interior retains some fine decorative features, including a large mosaic-tiled vestibule with decorative plasterwork cornice and wood panelling. Other retained features include carved wooden balustrades, wainscot panelling, decorative timber chimneypieces, and an arcaded stairwell.

Two corniced, polished ashlar gatepiers with stop-chamfered angles and stone ball finials mark the entrance.