57 Dick Place, Edinburgh

57 Dick Place is a villa built around 1863, designed in the style of David Bryce. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan with a gabled roof. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone rubble, featuring polished dressings, a base course, long and short quoins, and chamfered reveals. The ornate timber bargeboards with filigree designs and kingposts, along with overhanging eaves and wooden gablehead finials, add to its architectural charm.

On the south elevation, there is a central doorway with a roll-moulded segmental arch, featuring a deep-set boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges and a plate glass fanlight above. To the right, there is a bipartite window, and to the left, a canted window with a cornice and a corbelled square stone gablehead. A single window is set in the gablehead.

The east elevation includes a single-storey gabled garage that is attached. The west elevation features a single window at the gablehead. The north elevation has an extended ground floor with a secondary entrance, three continuous sash and case windows, and a roof that sweeps from the extension to the apex of the main house. Two original gables and a small gablehead window remain on the outer right.

The villa has three-pane sash and case windows and a grey slate gabled roof with overhanging eaves. There are three gablehead stacks, one of which is rendered, with moulded octagonal cans, and a skylight on the north side.

The interior was not seen in 1990. There is a low retaining wall along the street and mutual boundary walls that rise to approximately 1.5 meters. The timber gates feature filigree work that complements the bargeboards.