1 West Coates, Edinburgh

Mid 19th century. Large 2-storey and attic, 4-bay baronial villa with crowstepped gables. Coursed, polished sandstone ashlar. String course and cill course between ground and 1st floors of canted bay; corbelled hood-mould and decorative cill course to narrow gablehead lights.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: gabled 2-storey bay at outer left recessed, window to each floor; penultimate bay to left advanced with recessed, shouldered doorpiece at ground, comprising panelled timber door with large, shouldered rectangular fanlight; panelled piers adjoining corniced walls flank ashlar steps leading to ground floor entrance; upper stories corbelled out; window to 1st floor; light to gable; window to right of doorpiece at ground; canted bay at right, with window to each face at both floors; attic storey corbelled to square with gablehead light. Modern, coped, flat-roofed, single storey addition at left, with cill course to 6-pane rectangular plate glass glazing.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: tripartite window at ground; pierced brackets support stone balcony to corniced tripartite window at 1st floor above.

2- and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; coped, shouldered, coursed sandstone ashlar stack to E side, with tall cylindrical cans; coped stack at rear with cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND OBELISK: low, coursed sandstone ashlar boundary walls to street, with obelisk on square-plan pedestal set to right; saddleback coping to mutual rubble boundary wall at E.