27 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

27 Murrayfield Avenue is a villa built around 1880, featuring two storeys and a square plan, with a conical-roofed turret and a lower rectangular two-storey addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed from coursed sandstone, accented with polished quoins, long and short surrounds, transoms, mullions, and canted bays. Notable architectural details include a base course, a cornice at the ground floor of the canted bays, a banded cill course at the first floor, bargeboards, and an ornately carved bracketed gable that forms a pediment above the southeast canted bay. The turret has dormers located at the center of the southwest elevation.

On the southwest (entrance) elevation, there is a two-storey gabled canted bay on the left, featuring two lights with a mullion and transom on the central face of each floor, and a single transomed light on the side faces. The ground floor has a moulded cill and cornice above a centered tripartite window, supported by columns acting as mullions, with a bipartite window above on the first floor. To the right, a single-storey canted bay mirrors the window arrangement, with a transomed tripartite window above a crenellated parapet. A lean-to porch projects from the southeast elevation, providing the entrance at the outer left, accompanied by a low coped wall and columns beside ashlar steps leading to a panelled timber door set back from the porch.

The southeast (Murrayfield Avenue) elevation features a moulded cill and cornice above the lean-to porch window at ground level, with a corniced panel above on the first floor. At the center, an engaged octagonal turret has transomed lights on the front three faces at ground level and transomed and mullioned windows on the first floor. Three dormers, one at the front and one on each side, break the eaves of the finialled turret. To the left, there is a transomed tripartite window on both floors.

The villa has timber-framed sash and case windows with multi-paned upper sashes, a red-tiled roof, and coped, coursed sandstone ashlar stacks with squat cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods complement the overall design.

The property is enclosed by low coped rubble boundary walls along the street, with tall, square-sectioned sandstone gatepiers that feature a dentilled cornice and swept, moulded caps.