9 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh

This is an Italianate villa, built around 1880, with a two-story north wing and a flat-roofed garage. It's located at 9 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh. The front of the house is cream-coloured sandstone, with a mix of coursed and squared bull-faced rubble and ashlar dressings. The rear is constructed of coursed and squared rubble.

The house has a symmetrical rectangular plan, with the north wing projecting to the rear. Key architectural details include a base course, a cornice above the ground floor, a molded cill course at the first floor, an overhanging eaves with heavy timber brackets, ashlar mullions, and molded panels in the aprons of the first-floor windows. The ground-floor windows have bracketed cills, and the wallhead features corniced stacks.

The front (east) elevation features a molded, round-arched doorway at the center, flanked by corniced windows and framed by rusticated pilasters. A consoled stone balcony with molded panels is positioned in front of the bipartite first-floor window. The outer bays have tripartite windows on the ground floor and bipartite windows above. The north wing has a bipartite window in the center, with a later addition of a door to the right. First-floor windows break the wallhead parapet, topped with segmental pedimented dormerheads. The garage, originally built on the right side, has been altered and now features two doors and a large modern picture window.

The rear (west) elevation has a steel staircase providing access to the first floor. A band course runs above the ground floor. A rectangular projection with a tripartite window and single windows on returns is located in the right bay at ground floor level. Bipartite and single windows are located above on the first floor. The remaining bays have single and bipartite windows, with a later addition of a secondary door on the first floor. A central shouldered wallhead stack punctuates the elevation. The north wing mirrors the detail of the east elevation, with its central window transformed into a door.

The north elevation displays two wallhead stacks on the main block and two on the north wing. The south elevation is characterized by a full-length, single-story timber conservatory, two windows at first floor level, and two wallhead stacks.

The windows are mostly timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing. The north wing retains four-pane windows. The roof is a green slate U-plan piend, with lead flashings and seven wallhead stacks, including one in the central valley. A rooflight is present on the north side. Decorative cast-iron gutterheads are also a feature. The interior of the house was not inspected in 1992.

The property is enclosed by a tall rubble boundary wall to the front, sides, and rear (which is low in some areas), with square, coped gatepiers and an ornamental cast-iron carriage gate.