Birnam Lodge And Gatepiers, 76 Trinity Road, Edinburgh

Birnam Lodge and Gatepiers, located at 76 Trinity Road in Edinburgh, is a 2-storey, 4-bay asymmetrical Gothic villa built in 1864, with a sympathetic addition made in 1890. The building features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, stugged quoins, and random rubble on the sides and rear. Notable architectural details include decorative bargeboarding in the gables and dormers, as well as overhanging bracketed eaves.

On the west (principal) elevation, the entrance is situated in the right bay of a recessed central 2-bay section, featuring a timber panelled door with a semicircular fanlight set in a round-arched opening. Above the door is a carved stone heraldic shield framed in a Tudor arch. The left central bay has a projecting bipartite window with a swept leaded roof at the ground level, and a window with a bargeboarded gable that breaks the eaves above it at the first floor. The advanced bays on the outer right and left have canted windows with cornices at the ground floor, and 2-light arcaded windows with roundels and polychrome banding above gothic relieving arches at the first floor.

The south (Spencer Place) elevation consists of 3 bays, with a later single-storey extension that contains the entrance to No 5 Spencer Place on the right. A glazed conservatory is attached to the two left bays at ground level, and there are windows with bargeboarded wallhead gables above. The right bay features a 2-light arcaded window at ground level.

The villa predominantly has 3-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, scalloped bargeboarding with kingposts in the gables, and is roofed with grey slates. Stone coped wallhead stacks with octagonal cans are also present.

The boundary walls are made of ashlar coped sandstone rubble, and there are two sets of ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps.