Hawthorne Brae, 46 The Causeway, Duddingston, Edinburgh

Hawthorne Brae is a Classical villa located at 46 The Causeway in Duddingston, Edinburgh, dating from around 1820, with additions made in the mid and late 19th century. The building is two stories high, with an attic and basement, featuring three bays and a gabled design. It has a grand entrance with swept steps leading to a columned and balustraded porch. The villa showcases canted dormers, curvilinear gables, and a lower wing to the east with a piend roof and a bargeboarded canted dormer. The front elevation and gables are finished in polished ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of squared, coursed sandstone. Notable architectural details include a base course, a ground floor cill course, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course, along with raised pilaster quoins, raised window margins, and projecting cills.

The south elevation features an advanced central entrance bay with balustraded steps leading to a distyle Tuscan order porch, which is topped by a balustraded stone balcony adorned with urn finials. The entrance includes a timber-panelled front door set in a round-arched margined architrave, accompanied by a plate glass fanlight. Above the door, there is a bipartite window at the first floor and a blind tablet with a curved top at the parapet. The outer bays have piend-roofed canted dormers. The west elevation includes mid-19th century corniced canted windows, with a single-storey window to the right featuring ball finials and a two-storey window to the left.

The interior of the villa boasts several notable features, including a bow-ended former dining room on the ground floor with a buffet recess, a timber staircase with an ornately carved newel and balusters, some original cornicing, and one original timber chimneypiece.

Additionally, the property includes chamfered gatepiers to the southeast and southwest, topped with round arch capstones, wrought-iron gates, and a coped rubble boundary wall.