27 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

Circa 1880. 2-storey square-plan villa with conical-roofed turret; lower rectangular-plan 2-storey addition at rear. Coursed sandstone with polished quoins, long and short surrounds, transoms, mullions and canted bays. Base course; cornice to ground floor of canted bays; banded cill course to 1st floor; bargeboards; ornately carved bracketed gable forming pediment above canted bay to SE; dormers to turret to centre of SW elevation.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-storey, gabled, canted bay at left; 2 lights with mullion and transom to central face at each floor; single, transomed light to side faces at each floor; moulded cill and cornice to centred tripartite window at ground, with columns forming mullions; bipartite window to 1st floor above; single storey canted bay at right, with windows as above; transomed tripartite window to 1st floor, above crenellated parapet to canted bay; lean-to porch projecting from SE elevation, forming entrance at outer left; low coped wall and columns at left of ashlar steps; panelled timber door set back.

SE (MURRAYFIELD AVENUE) ELEVATION: moulded cill and cornice to window of lean-to porch at ground to right; corniced panel to 1st floor above; engaged octagonal turret at centre, with transomed lights to front 3 faces at ground, transomed and mullioned at 1st floor above; 3 (1 at front, 1 at each side) dormers breaking eaves of finialled turret; transomed tripartite window at bay to left, both floors.

Timber-framed sash and case windows; multi-paned upper sashes. Red-tiled roof; coped, coursed sandstone ashlar stacks with squat cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped rubble boundary wall to street; tall, square-sectioned sandstone gatepiers with dentilled cornice and swept, moulded caps.