25 Newington Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1825. 2-storey with raised basements and advanced 3-storey terminal pavilions; 28-bay classical palace block of houses and tenements. Polished cream sandstone ashlar to principal (W) elevation, rusticated at ground; droved ashlar to basements and 3rd floor of pavilions, stugged to N elevation; coursed rubble to S elevation and rear. Base course; band course; panelled aprons to 1st floor windows; cornice over 1st floor and over 2nd floor to pavilions; blocking course. Later shopfronts extended to street.

W (NEWINGTON ROAD) ELEVATION: CENTRAL BLOCK: 6, 3-bay tenements; No 27 to outer right raised at basement level; doorways to outer left; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; regular fenestration to right and floors above; lengthened windows replacing panelled aprons to 1st floor of tenements right of centre and penultimate left. N AND S PAVILIONS: round-angle N pavilion with 1-3 East Preston Street; central doorways; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; regular fenestration to outer right and left and floors above; blind windows to S pavilion penultimate right at 1st and 2nd floor levels.

N (EAST PRESTON STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay; shop at ground; regular fenestration above and to rounded corner with Newington Road; blind windows to outer right and penultimate left at 1st and 2nd floor levels.

S (EAST NEWINGTON PLACE) ELEVATION: 4-bay with blank bay to outer right; doorway to penultimate left; panelled door; small-paned, geometric fanlight; doric columns to corniced doorpiece; regular fenestration to centre and left; smaller windows to right of door at ground and 1st floor levels.

E ELEVATION: paired windows to S pavilion rising to wallhead stack to left; doorway to N pavilion at right of centre with panelled door, plate glass fanlight; doric columns to corniced doorpiece; paired windows rising to wallhead stack above; single windows to outer left.

Predominantly plate glass, timber, sash and case windows; some 4-pane and 12-pane. Grey slate roof; coped wallhead and ridge stacks; moulded cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: high, coursed rubble boundary wall surrounding back gardens to East Preston Street and East Newington Place.