5 West Coates, Edinburgh

Mid 19th century. Large 2-storey, 4-bay Jacobean villa. Coursed, polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Bracketed, corniced, strapwork balconies to 1st floor windows; cill course at 1st floor; cornice. Margins to windows; skews, skew-putts and tabernacle forming finial to gabled bay.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced, 2-bay, gabled bay at right: window to each bay at ground and to 1st floor above; continuous bracketed balcony at 1st floor; cornices to each window at 1st floor, with carved emblems above; kneelered gable. Recessed 2-bay block at left with advanced single storey entrance porch to ground at bay to right; margin-framed panelled timber entrance door with frieze and cornice above, surmounted by elaborate carved strapwork emblem; balcony formed above porch; single window with triangular pediment at 1st floor; single window at ground to bay to outer left, with balcony to single window with triangular gable at 1st floor above.

Piend-roofed conservatory on rendered base extending to front at outer right.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay symmetrical. Single window to bay to left and right at ground and 1st floors (blocked at 1st floor to left); triangular pediments to 1st floor windows; chimney-breast to centre forming square-section wallhead stack at roof.

Modern gabled single storey addition at W. Coursed sandstone ashlar; skews. Centred bipartite window.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wall- and gablehead stacks with mixture of tall and short square-sectioned, corniced cans, diagonally set; painted cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS, OBELISK AND GATE PIERS: tall, squared and snecked sandstone rubble boundary wall with saddleback coping bordering Wester Coates Road at E. Low, coursed sandstone boundary wall to front, with obelisk and square-plan corniced gate piers, surmounted by small, capped obelisks.