5 Cluny Drive, Edinburgh

This is a late 19th century, probably 1890, detached villa, possibly designed by George Washington Browne. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay asymmetrical building with Queen Anne details, accompanied by a single-storey side wing and garage, and a large mansard roof to the rear. The front and east elevations are constructed from cream sandstone, using stugged ashlar with polished dressings; the rear and side elevations use coursed and squared rubble. A moulded cill course runs along the ground and first floors, and a moulded string course sits above the ground floor. There's a banded eaves course and eaves cornice, cavetto-moulded window reveals, basket-arched transomed ground floor openings, ashlar mullions and transoms, and angled skewblocks.

The south (front) elevation features a keystoned doorway in the centre, flanked by small round-arched tripartite windows with a blind keystoned centre light containing a carved angle holding a dated tablet. The elevation also has rectangular timber dormers. The right bay has a full-height canted window with a 1-2-1 arrangement and a balustraded parapet, while the left bay has paired windows to both the ground and first floors.

The east (Hermitage Gardens) elevation is two bays wide, with a gabled bay to the left featuring a corniced apex stack and a single window. To the right is a bipartite window at ground floor and single windows at the first floor, topped with a tripartite timber dormer.

The north (rear) elevation is three bays wide, with a tall transomed bipartite stair window in the centre, and single and bipartite windows to the outer bays. A tall, corniced wallhead stack is also present, along with a tripartite dormer.

The west elevation has a gabled bay to the right with an apex stack and a single-storey garage with a half-piend roof. To the left is a single window and another wallhead stack, accompanied by a single-storey service wing with a mansard roof, truncated gable, and a canted timber conservatory. The windows throughout are timber sash and case, featuring 6-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes.

The roof is covered with green slates, with a mansard to the rear featuring lead flashings, and gables to the front. There are two apex and two wallhead stacks. Moulded eaves gutters and gutteheads are present.

The interior was not inspected in 1992.

The property is surrounded by a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to the rear and side, a lower wall to the front and east with saddleback coping, along with later gates and railings.