Victoria Cottage, 3 Clifton Road, Edinburgh

Victoria Cottage, located at 3 Clifton Road in Edinburgh, is a former school built in 1874 by the architectural firm Burn and Bryce, with later additions. This single-storey, six-bay building features an asymmetrical rectangular plan and has an advanced gabled wing to the east. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with droved ashlar quoins, raised cills, and a base course.

The main elevation faces east and consists of a five-bay range with an advanced gabled bay to the east and a one-bay extension to the south. There is a gabled stone porch located in the northeast re-entrant angle formed by the advanced bay. The porch features a chamfered basket-arch doorway with a recessed square plaque in the gablehead. Ashlar coping adorns the skews and skewblocks. A small window is present on the north return of the porch, while to the right, there are two windows flanking a bay with a gabled wallhead stack and a date-stone inscribed with "1874" at the centre. A bipartite window with a shared stone mullion is located to the outer right. To the left of the porch is a broad gabled bay with a central window that has pentice bracketted slab coping supported on corbels above the lintel, along with a narrow ventilation slit in the gablehead. The lower end bay is recessed and features a sandstone chamfered shoulder-arch door and overhanging eaves.

The north elevation includes a modern glazed door at the centre, accompanied by pentice bracketted slab coping and a small window to the right. The rear elevation, facing west, has a rendered and painted addition with a half-piend return to the north and modern additions.

The building has plate glass sash and case windows, along with a modern 12-pane sash and case window in the gable. The roof is covered with grey slate, and ashlar coping is present on the skews and skewblocks. A coped, shouldered wallhead chimney is located on the east elevation, while a squared and corniced sandstone ridge stack and a tall wallhead stack are found at the rear.

Additionally, there is a low single-storey outbuilding, formerly a privy, situated to the northeast of the house, near the boundary wall and above the south bank of the canal. This outbuilding is constructed of random rubble with quoins and features a slate pentice roof with ashlar coped gables. A small pen area is surrounded by a rubble wall against the north elevation.

The boundary wall is made of squared and snecked stone with square block coping. A well is located approximately 9 feet away from the house, defined by hand-cut stone and measuring 5 feet across and 20 inches deep.