18-18A Dick Place, Edinburgh

18-18A Dick Place is a villa built around 1860, featuring two stories and a symmetrical three-bay rectangular plan. The building has been subdivided since 1949. Its construction includes squared and snecked rubble with a polished ashlar northern elevation. Architectural details include a base, dividing band, blocking courses, a cornice, and stop-chamfered quoins, along with decorative cast-iron window guards.

The northern entrance elevation has a raised surround at the center door, which is topped by a carved consoled cornice. The door is panelled, and there is a plate glass letterbox fanlight above it. Flanking the door are single windows with raised surrounds on the ground floor, while the first floor features regular fenestration with decorative anthemion and palmette cast-iron window guards on the outer left and right. To the left, there is a single-storey garage and extension.

On the western elevation, there is an advanced block to the outer right that includes a secondary entrance and two small windows. The eastern elevation also has a single-storey garage and extension, with a single window on the first floor.

The southern elevation features a later full-height three-bay bow to the outer left, topped with a conical roof. This section includes a two-leaf French door with a bipartite fanlight above it, leading to the principal floor over a door to the cellar, and three single windows on the first floor. There is a single-storey flat-roofed addition at the center with irregular fenestration, and another single-storey flat-roofed extension to the outer right.

The ground floor of the northern elevation has 4-pane sash and case windows with internal secondary glazing, while the southern elevation has a mixture of plate glass and lying-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features lead flashing, three corniced wallhead stacks, one coped wallhead stack, and moulded octagonal cans.

Inside No. 18A, there is a vestibule with encaustic tiles and decorative plaster mouldings. No. 18 features decorative plaster mouldings and an apsidal drawing room. The property is enclosed by a low coped boundary wall to the street and rubble mutual boundary walls, with a single detached garage to the west.