5 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh

5 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh, is a 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa built in 1880 by Robert Wilson. It features Renaissance detailing and a basement to the rear. The villa is rectangular in plan.

The front of the building is constructed from cream-coloured polished sandstone, while the rear and sides are of squared and snecked rubble stone with stugged ashlar margins. Features include rounded window reveals, round-arched windows, ashlar mullions, Corinthian capitals, a band course above the ground floor, a 1st floor cill course, a stone bracketted eaves cornice, and timber pediments to the rear and side dormers.

The northeast (front) elevation has a central open entrance porch with paired fluted columns on pedestals, a frieze, a dentilled cornice, and an ashlar balustrade. The porch contains an architraved door surround and a modern door. Above the entrance is a corniced and keystoned single window with decorative margins, and a scroll-flanked dormer with a segmental pediment. The outer bays contain corniced bipartite windows with foliate roundels in the spandrel at ground floor level. At the 1st floor, arched bipartite windows flank columnar shafts and mullions, with blank roundels in spandrels set in rectangular panels that break the bracketted cornice and incorporate roundels in the panelled aprons. Scroll-flanked pedimented dormer windows are positioned above. A single-storey garage is located to the right.

The southwest (rear) elevation is three storeys and attic high and features a full-height canted ashlar window in the bay to the left. The centre bay is a single window, with a 1st floor window that is round-arched and partly blocked with a small canted timber oriel. The bay to the right features bipartite windows, and two canted tripartite dormers are present.

The southeast elevation includes a single-storey piend-roofed extension to the right with three narrow single windows, and a modern rectangular window replacing a formerly blocked, round-arched stair window. Two corniced wallhead stacks are present, along with dormer windows to the centre and outer left.

The northwest elevation has two more corniced wallhead stacks.

The windows are timber sash and case, mostly with plate glass glazing. Some windows at the rear retain 4-pane glazing. The roof is slate piend and platform, with lead flashings and four octagonal cans atop the wallhead stacks. A moulded eaves gutter is also present. The interior was not inspected in 1992.

The rear and sides are bordered by a tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping, and a low rubble wall with saddleback coping, later railings, a carriage gate, and a pedestrian gate.