6 York Place, Edinburgh

6 York Place is a late 18th century, three-storey terraced classical house with an attic and basement. It is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, featuring V-jointed rustication on the principal floor. The building has a base course, a band course between the basement and the principal floor, and a corniced band course between the principal and first floors. At the second floor, there is a mutule cornice and a blocking course. The entrance is accessed via ashlar steps and an entrance platform that overhangs the basement.

On the south elevation, there is a round-arched tripartite doorway in the left bay at the principal floor, which includes a six-panel timber door flanked by three-light sidelights and aprons, topped with a radial semicircular fanlight. The remaining bays on the principal floor feature windows, while the floors above and the basement have regular fenestration. The first floor has architraved windows with a corniced fluted frieze, and the second floor has architraved windows. The basement area is flagged.

The west elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (2-4A York Place), as does the east elevation (8 and 8A York Place). The building features two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and a later slate-hung rectangular dormer spanning the bays. It also has cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered ridge stacks that are coped with circular cans, and coped skews.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed and urn finials.