2 Wester Coates Avenue, Edinburgh

Henry F Kerr, 1899. 2-storey, 4-bay, L-plan Scottish Renaissance villa. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished sandstone dressings. Skews, quoins, long and short surrounds, chamfered arrises. Moulded, stylised castellations to canted bays and oriel window; broken segmental pediments to dormers; moulded ogee-headed panels above windows to gables.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to outer right; canted bay to right at ground; bipartite window to 1st floor above; window to return to main elevation at 1st floor level; small-square flat-roofed dormer to roof above; Gibbsian doorpiece to penultimate bay to right at ground, comprising lugged surround, cornice and square panel decorated with scrolled mouldings; dormer breaking eaves set slightly to right at 1st floor above; pair of windows to left of doorpiece at ground, small tripartite window to 1st floor above; centred, flat-roofed, bipartite dormer to roof above; canted bay to outer left at ground; dormer breaking eaves to 1st floor above.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: window set to left at ground; centred window above; gablehead stack.

E (WESTER COATES GARDENS) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Large window to each of 2 bays to right at ground; dormer breaking eaves to 1st floor at right; bipartite window to centre at 1st floor; 3-light oriel window to bay to outer left at 1st floor; tapered wallhead stack, continued down to ground as chimney breast, immediately to right.

Timber sash and case windows with small pane upper sashes. Grey slate roof; stacks coped and quoined; tall moulded cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared and snecked sandstone boundary walls with saddle-back coping to street; wide entrance with vertically-boarded gates to side (Wester Coates Gardens); chamfered blocks surmounted by small lamps form gatepiers.