5 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh

Robert Wilson, 1880. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular-plan subdivided villa with Renaissance detail and basement to rear. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar front, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and sides with stugged ashlar margins. Rounded reveals; round-arched windows; ashlar mullions; Corinthian capitals; band course above ground floor; 1st floor cill course; stone bracketted eaves cornice; timber pediments to rear and side dormers.

NE (FRONT) ELEVATION: open entrance porch at centre with paired fluted columns on pedestals, frieze, dentilled cornice and ashlar balustrade, architraved door surround, modern door; at 1st floor corniced and keystoned single window with decorative margin, scroll-flanked dormer with segmental pediment above. Outer bays comprised of corniced bipartite window with foliate roundels in spandrel at ground floor; at 1st floor arched bipartite windows with columnar shafts and mullions and blank roundels in spandrels set in rectangular panel breaking bracketted cornice and with roundels to panelled aprons. Scroll-flanked pedimented dormer windows above. Single storey garage to right.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey and attic; full-height canted ashlar window in bay to left; single windows to centre bay with 1st floor window round-arched and part blocked with small canted timber oriel; bipartite windows to bay to right; 2 canted tripartite dormers.

SE ELEVATION: single storey piend-roofed extension to right with 3 narrow single windows; modern rectangular window in central blocked round-arched and keystoned former stair window. 2 corniced wallhead stacks; dormer windows to centre and outer left.

NW ELEVATION: 2 corniced wallhead stacks.

Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing, some 4-pane windows to rear. Slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), octagonal cans. Moulded eaves gutter. INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides, low rubble wall with saddleback coping, later railings, carriage and pedestrian gates.