6 Merchiston Park, Edinburgh

Circa 1860. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular plan villa with classical detail, single storey extension to side; grey sandstone, dressed ashlar front and NW elevations, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and side; base course; eaves cornice and blocking course; architraved and corniced windows, consoled at ground floor; chamfered reveals to canted bay; shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks.

NE (FRONT) ELEVATION: centre bay with painted enclosed pilastered porch (addition) with cornice and blocking course with ball finials, 2-leaf panelled door, tiled vestibule, small window flanking to left with leaded panes and stained glass border, single window at 1st floor above; outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor; single storey flat-roofed extension to left with 3 single windows.

NW ELEVATION: 3-bay; full-height canted window to right bay with cornice and blocking course, canted timber dormer with dentilled cornice above; single windows to ground and 1st floor of centre and left bays; small lean-to glazed porch to secondary door to left of centre, wallhead stack above.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; blank bay to left with modern lean-to glazed extension, wallhead stack; centre bay blank with ghost of 2 blocked windows, bipartite box dormer; bay to right with large window with timber surround of pilasters and dentilled cornice, leaded panes, bipartite window at 1st floor above; single storey extension to right with rear door to left, single window to right.

SE ELEVATION: single storey extension at ground floor; central round-arched stair window with leaded lights and stained glass border at 1st floor; 2 wallhead stacks.

Timber sash and case windows, mostly 2-pane upper sashes, 4-pane lower sashes; slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: large vestibule and arcaded hall with neo-medieval tiling; timber stair with turned balusters and newel post with carved dragon (rampant); ornate cornices; rear drawing room with elaborately carved timber fireplace with copper canopy with Art Noveau motifs.

Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, coped gatepiers with metal ball finials.