87 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

89 Colinton Road in Edinburgh is a pair of semi-detached houses built in 1898 by Edward Calvert. These two-storey and attic homes feature a cream sandstone exterior with red sandstone ashlar dressings. The front is made of ashlar stone, while the rear and sides are constructed from squared and snecked rubble. The design includes a red ashlar base course, a cill band course at the ground floor, and a moulded cill course at the first floor. The windows are stilted and segmental-arched at the ground floor, with decorative aprons above the first floor and attic windows. The houses also have a fluted frieze and moulded capitals on the mullions, an ashlar eaves course, and bipartite timber dormers with moulded surrounds.

The northwest (front) elevation is symmetrical, featuring a single-storey lean-to glazed entrance porch next to the outer bays. This porch has a classical ashlar front and is built from rubble at the rear. The doorway is flanked by panelled pilasters and has a carved frieze, cornice, and blocking course, with a panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight. The central bays have tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, with a dormer above. The outer bays feature shallow full-height canted windows arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern, which are corbelled to square in a shaped gablehead adorned with a shell-carved pediment. There is also a small bipartite window with decorative astragals, a shaped apron, and an open pediment in the gablehead.

The southeast (rear) elevation includes a central single-storey projection with a mansard roof and a tall wallhead stack connected to the roof above, flanked by quadripartite dormers. The northeast elevation features a single-storey porch that is part-glazed and part-rubble-built at the ground floor, with a single central window at the first floor, a tall central shouldered and corniced wallhead stack, and a dormer to the right. The southwest elevation mirrors the southeast elevation.

The houses have timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, although there are replacement windows on the ground floor of No 89. The roofs are covered with green slates, featuring piend and platform designs with lead flashings and red crested ridge tiles on the front gables. There is one central wallhead stack and moulded eaves gutters.

The interior was not seen in 1992. A low rubble wall with saddleback coping is present at the front of the property.