21 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

25 Murrayfield Avenue in Edinburgh is a row of terraced houses built in 1899. This two-storey and attic building features two bays with canted bays and crow-stepped gables. The exterior is made of coursed polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, including a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors, and a cornice at the roofline. The canted bays have cornices beneath crenellated parapets, and the dormers on the gables have alternating segmental and triangular pediments. The first-floor windows of the bay on the right (Nos 19 to 25 only) have margins.

On the principal elevation, the door is located in the bay to the right at ground level, framed by panelled pedestals that support a moulded, keystoned round-arched opening. The spandrels have recessed panels, and flanking fluted pilasters with raised rectangular mouldings at the capitals support a cornice. The entrance features a panelled timber door flanked by narrow multi-paned lights and a semicircular fanlight, some of which have astragals. Above the door is a window at the first floor, with a dormer in the attic. The left side has a two-storey canted bay with windows on each face and a bipartite window above the parapet.

The windows have 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, with 4-pane glazing in the dormers and occasional multi-paned upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped, coursed, polished sandstone ashlar stacks with tall cylindrical cans, with the stack between Nos 23 and 25 rendered. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The northwest side elevation is two bays wide and includes a base course and band courses between the ground floor and first floor, as well as between the first and second floors. There is a cornice and balustrade with ball finials at either end of the gablehead stack. The left bay has a two-storey canted bay with a crenellated parapet, a bipartite window above, and a centered window at attic level. An elaborate plaque inscribed '1899' is set to the right at the first floor.

The boundary walls are low, coped, and made of coursed sandstone rubble, lining the street.