57 Dick Place, Edinburgh

Circa 1863, school of David Bryce. Single storey with attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan gabled villa. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with polished dressings. Base course; long and short quoins; chamfered reveals; ornate filligree timber bargeboards with kingposts; overhanging eaves; wooden gablehead finials.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central roll-moulded segmental-arched doorway; deep-set boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges; plate glass fanlight. Bipartite window to outer right; canted window to outer left, corniced, with corbelled to square stone gablehead; single window set in gablehead.

E ELEVATION: single storey, gabled, en suite garage attached.

W ELEVATION: single window at gablehead.

N ELEVATION: full length of ground floor extended; secoNdary entrance; 3 continuous sash and case windows; roof swept from extension to apex of main house; 2 original gables and small gablehead window remain to outer right.

3-pain sash and case windows. Grey slate gabled roof with overhanging eraves; 3 gablehead stacks (1 rENdered); moulded octagonal cans; skylight to N.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

Low retaining wall to street; mutual boundary walls to approximately 1.5m. Timber gates including filigree work en suite with bargeboards.