2 Granton Road, Edinburgh

2 Granton Road is a classical villa built around 1835, featuring two stories and a basement. The building has a symmetrical L-plan layout with three bays and two principal elevations made of ashlar sandstone, adorned with pediments and ashlar dressings. The structure includes an ashlar base course, an eaves cornice, and architraved windows on the main elevations. The first-floor windows have lugged surrounds, while the ground-floor windows are aproned and feature consoled cornices.

On the east elevation, there is a recessed central bay that houses the entrance hall, flanked by pedimented bays with moulded cornices. Stone steps lead to the central entrance, which is sheltered by a Doric porch supported by paired pilasters. The entrance features a replacement timber door within an early or original glazed timber tripartite surround.

The south elevation, facing Ferry Road, has a projecting central bay with a pediment and a canted bay window, which is likely an addition to the original design. The north and west elevations are constructed of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and droved quoins. There is a stairway extension with a catslide roof at the re-entrant angle, along with modern rendered flat-roofed extensions on either side. The elevations at the re-entrant angle are mostly blank, occupied by flues, except for the extensions and a single narrow window at the junction with the catslide roof.

The villa features mainly 12-pane, lying-pane timber sash and case windows, with 2-pane sashes on the bay window and a border glazed window on the stairway extension. The basement has replacement windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate and include three ashlar wallhead stacks with moulded cornices, as well as a similar ridge stack, all topped with moulded octagonal cans.

The boundary wall is made of sandstone rubble and features a semicircular coping along the south and part of the east side. The interior was not inspected in 1997.