66 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

66 Polwarth Terrace is a villa built in 1897 by James Jerdan. It is a two-storey and attic, two-bay rectangular-plan building featuring a steep gabled elevation facing the street. The front is made of cream sandstone with ashlar detailing, while the sides and rear are constructed from squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. A cill course is present at the first floor.

On the southeast (front) elevation, there is a two-storey canted window in the left bay, with a stone balustrade that continues as a blind feature over the right bay. The right bay has single windows, and the ground floor windows have chamfered reveals. The first-floor windows are corniced and framed by strip pilasters. The gablehead features two windows, also framed by strip pilasters, flanking a moulded rectangular panel with a round-headed pediment above. A continuous cornice runs over the windows and panel, breaking the gable coping as kneelers, topped with a stone finial. The entrance is located in a single-storey recessed projection to the right, which has scalloped eaves cornice and roll-moulded margins around the door. To the left is a single-storey garage extension.

The northwest (rear) elevation includes a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the left with railings and two stone mullioned bipartite windows, along with a single window in the right bay. There is one window per bay at the first floor, and a tripartite window with ashlar mullions in the gablehead.

The northeast elevation has a bipartite window (originally tripartite) above the entrance projection with ashlar mullions, and a bipartite dormer window with timber mullions. The southwest elevation features a canted ashlar oriel to the right over the garage extension, with a blank front and arrowslit strip windows on the sides, and a single window to the left.

The villa has timber sash and case windows, with mostly 6-pane upper sashes and 2-pane lower sashes at the front, and plate glass at the rear. The roof is covered with green slate and red ridge tiles, featuring four tall corniced wallhead stacks on the northeast and southwest sides, linked to the roof. The stacks nearest to the front elevation are shouldered, and there is a dormer linking two stacks on the northeast side, along with a box dormer on the southwest.

The interior was not seen in 1992. The property is enclosed by a high rubble semi-circular coped boundary wall on the northwest and northeast sides, and a low saddleback coped rubble wall at the front. There are separate pedestrian and carriage gates, with one remaining square gatepost featuring flat ogee coping and decorative cast-iron gates.