2 Wester Coates Avenue, Edinburgh

2 Wester Coates Avenue in Edinburgh is a two-storey, four-bay Scottish Renaissance villa designed by Henry F Kerr in 1899. The building features squared and snecked sandstone with polished sandstone dressings, showcasing architectural elements such as skews, quoins, long and short surrounds, and chamfered arrises. Notable design features include moulded, stylised castellations on the canted bays and oriel window, broken segmental pediments on the dormers, and moulded ogee-headed panels above the windows on the gables.

On the south (front) elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay to the outer right, with a canted bay at ground level and a bipartite window above on the first floor. A window returns to the main elevation at the first floor level, and a small square flat-roofed dormer is positioned above. The penultimate bay to the right at ground level features a Gibbsian doorpiece with a lugged surround, cornice, and a square panel decorated with scrolled mouldings. To the left of the doorpiece, there are two windows at ground level and a small tripartite window above on the first floor. A centred flat-roofed bipartite dormer is located above, along with a canted bay to the outer left at ground level and another dormer breaking the eaves above.

The west (side) elevation includes a window set to the left at ground level, with a centred window above and a gablehead stack.

The east (Wester Coates Gardens) elevation is three bays wide, featuring large windows in two of the right bays at ground level. A dormer breaks the eaves on the right at the first floor, with a bipartite window in the centre and a three-light oriel window in the outer left bay at the first floor. A tapered wallhead stack extends down to the ground as a chimney breast, located immediately to the right.

The villa has timber sash and case windows with small pane upper sashes, a grey slate roof with coped and quoined stacks, tall moulded cylindrical cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls are made of squared and snecked sandstone with saddle-back coping along the street. There is a wide entrance with vertically-boarded gates to the side (Wester Coates Gardens), and the gatepiers are formed by chamfered blocks surmounted by small lamps.