66 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

James Jerdan, 1897. 2-storey and attic 2-bay rectangular-plan villa with steep coped gabled elevation to street; cream sandstone, ashlar front, squared and coursed rubble to sides and rear with ashlar dressings; 1st floor cill course.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: 2-storey canted window in bay to left with stone balustrade continuing blind over right bay; single windows in bay to right; ground floor window chamfered reveals, 1st floor window corniced and framed by strip pilasters; 2 windows in gablehead, framed by strip pilasters, flanking moulded rectangular panel with round-headed pediment above; continuous cornice over windows and panel breaking gable coping as kneelers, stone finial; entrance in single storey recessed projection to right with scalloped eaves cornice, roll-moulded margins to door; single storey garage extension to left.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed extension to left with railings and 2 stone mullioned bipartite windows; single window in right bay; 1 window per bay at 1st floor; tripartite window with ashlar mullions in gablehead.

NE ELEVATION: bipartite window (originally tripartite) over entrance projection, ashlar mullions; bipartite dormer window, timber mullions. SW ELEVATION: canted ashlar oriel to right over garage extension, blank front, arrowslit strip windows in sides; single window to left.

Timber sash and case windows, at front mostly 6-pane upper sashes, 2-pane lower sashes, plate glass to rear; green slate roof, red ridge tiles, 4 tall corniced wallhead stacks to NE and SW linked to roof, those nearest to front elevation shouldered, dormer linking 2 stacks to NE; box dormer to SW.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES: high rubble semi-circular coped boundary wall to NW and NE, low saddleback coped rubble wall at front, separate pedestrian and carriage gates, 1 remaining square gatepost with flat ogee coping, decorative cast-iron gates.