27-29 Regent Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

Late 19th century. 2-storey with attic storey, symmetrical 6-bay terrace of houses. Polished channelled ashlar to ground floor, polished ashlar to 1st floor; squared and snecked side elevations. Base course, band course between floors, moulded at canted windows, string course at 3/4 height of 1st floor windows, stepped over windows; cornice and blocking course. Half-height stop-chamfered arrises to 1st floor windows; basket-arched lintels to all openings; slightly raised hoods to canted windows, decorative key-stones.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: consoled and corniced doorpieces to centre with panelled doors, basket-arched plate glass fanlight above. Panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in penultimate bays; windows at 1st floor above. Windows in intermediate bays at ground with tripartite windows between these and centre bays at 1st floor. Full-height canted windows to outer bays. Carved name stone at extreme right of band course.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1994. Extension probably single storey to centre.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with slate-hung piended dormers (canted to outer bays) to centre four bays. Ashlar coped wallhead stacks to side elevations, ashlar coped mutual stacks. Cast-iron downpipes, with string and band courses clasping.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIER: stugged with coping, now harled at No 31; spear-headed railings remaining to Nos 27 and 29. Tall square-section ashlar gatepier to No 27 with pyramidal coping finial.