60 Spylaw Road And Stables, Edinburgh

60 Spylaw Road and Stables is a villa built around 1875, featuring two storeys and an attic with a three-bay rectangular plan. It includes a single-storey rear wing and a stable block to the northwest. The villa is constructed from cream sandstone with an ashlar front, while the rear and sides are made of squared and snecked stugged rubble. It has a base course, a banded string course above the ground floor, an eaves cornice with a blocking course, channelled quoins, stop-chamfered reveals, ashlar mullions, and bracketed cills.

The southeast (front) elevation showcases a central entrance door with an architrave and a consoled cornice over a panelled frieze. The door is panelled and features a rectangular plate glass fanlight above it. There is a single window on the first floor above the entrance, a left bay with a full-height canted window (1-2-1), and a canted timber dormer (1-2-1) with a segmental pediment for the central lights. The right bay contains bipartite windows on both the ground and first floors, with a small bipartite timber dormer above.

The northwest (rear) elevation has single-storey M-piended service bays spanning its length, with two windows to the left. The main block features a central bipartite stair window and a raised wallhead with two segmental-arched windows flanked by shouldered wallhead stacks.

The southeast elevation is three bays wide, with a banded eaves course and a blocking course. It has a gabled blank bay to the left with a corniced apex stack and blind keystones surrounding a round-arched window in the gablehead. The centre and right bays have bipartite windows on the ground floor and single windows on the first floor, along with a bipartite and single window in the rear wing.

The southwest elevation mirrors the southeast elevation but includes a steel fire escape stair and a bipartite dormer in the centre.

The stable block is a single-storey structure with a hayloft, built from squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. The hayloft doors break the eaves as gabled dormerheads, and there is a gabled bay with carriage doors and an apex stack. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, and some are four-pane windows located at the rear and sides. The roof is covered with Scottish slate and features piend and platform styles, along with lead flashings and two wallhead and two apex stacks.

The property is enclosed by a tall rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping, a low rubble wall at the front with saddleback coping, coped gatepiers, and cast-iron gates.