20 Lauder Road, Edinburgh

20 Lauder Road is a villa built around 1852, featuring two stories and three bays, with an almost L-shaped layout. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, with polished ashlar on the north, east, and west elevations. It has a base course, raised window surrounds, droved margins, quoin strips, panelled and coped skewblocks, and tall gablehead and gully stacks.

On the south elevation facing Dick Place, there is an open stone porch at the center, formed by an advanced gabled bay to the left. This elevation includes keystoned depressed-arched openings to the south and east, a cornice with decorative stone carving, a panelled door, and a plate glass fanlight. Above, there is a single window on the first floor. The outer right bay has single windows, with the first-floor window set in a corbelled panel that breaks the eaves in a pedimented dormer head. The outer left bay is also advanced and gabled, featuring a two-storey canted window with a bracketed dividing cornice, topped with a cornice and decorative stone carving, and a slit window in the gablehead.

The east elevation facing Lauder Road has an M-gabled design, with a two-storey canted window in the outer right bay, which includes dividing and eaves cornices and a blocking course.

The west elevation features a forestair leading to a secondary entrance on the first floor, with plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is pitched with grey slate, has coped gables, a polygonal stack on the south gable, and corniced double stacks in the re-entrant angle to the south and at the gablehead to the east, with moulded octagonal cans.

The boundary walls consist of high coped rubble, with mutual walls and pedestrian gateways leading to Lauder Road and Dick Place.