South Villa, 41 Moss Street, Elgin

South Villa, located at 41 Moss Street in Elgin, was designed by William Robertson and is dated 1830. The front features finely tooled ashlar, with canted bays also in ashlar, while the flanks and a two-storey, one-bay wing to the east are constructed of coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

This two-storey, three-bay villa has two-storey canted bays that project on the return elevations. The central entrance is highlighted by a semi-circular portico supported by Greek-Doric columns. There are two flanking windows adorned with bracketed anthemion cornices, and the first-floor windows are similarly detailed, with a pediment at the center. The wall face between the windows and the corners is shallowly recessed. The windows feature 8-, 9-, or 12-pane sashes with blind boxes, and original cast-iron railings can be found over the portico and canted bay balconies. The villa has deep eaves and a shallow piended slate roof with paired chimneys at the center.

The walls along Moss Street are coursed and coped, complemented by four monolith panelled gate piers and a pair of ashlar end piers, each topped with copes decorated with a Greek key pattern border and an anthemion motif. The property also includes cast-iron gates and coped rubble garden walls, as well as a domestic ice-house located in the garden.