7 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh

This is a two-story with attic terrace of two villas, built in 1879 by Robert Reid Raeburn. It’s located in Edinburgh and comprises a central, eight-bay, pavilioned block flanked by terminal pavilions, creating a symmetrical arrangement. The exterior is faced with snecked ashlar, with polished dressings. The central pavilion has channelled stonework on its ground floor. Architectural details include base and dividing band courses, an eaves cornice, and a cill course (except on the pavilions). Single windows have bracketed cills and raised surrounds, with roll-moulded window surrounds. Doorways are architraved, and most feature carved consoles and cornices, although numbers 7, 8, 11, and 12 are exceptions. Number 9 and 10 exhibit channelled quoins, while numbers 1 and 18 have long and short quoins.

The south (entrance) elevation is characterized by variations in window and dormer styles across the different properties. Numbers 1 and 8 feature a doorway to the outer left, a single window above, and a pedimented dormer in the attic. They also have a full-height canted window to the outer right, topped by a canopy that sweeps to a pedimented bipartite dormer in the attic. Numbers 2-6 largely replicate this design, but with segmental-arched dormers featuring lugged surrounds and canted dormers. Number 7 incorporates a doorway to the outer left, a single window above, a pedimented dormer in the attic, and a full-height advanced tripartite window to the right, topped by a French pavilion roof with a pedimented bipartite dormer. Number 9 mirrors number 7’s design, with the added detail of a segmental-arched dormer and a full-height advanced tripartite window with chamfered angles, and retains a French pavilion roof above with a pedimented tripartite dormer. Number 10 is a mirror of number 9, notable for the survival of decorative cast-iron brattishing and a finial on the pavilion roof. Number 12 is a mirror of number 7. Numbers 13-17 replicate the design of numbers 2-6. Numbers 11 and 18 mirror the design of numbers 1 and 8.

The west elevation (number 18) displays advanced bays with single windows, and a later addition of a dormer. The east elevation (number 1) has bipartite windows in an advanced bay, and single windows in the central and outer left bays. The windows are plate glass sash and case windows, set within a grey slate mansard roof. Lead flashing, corniced mutual stacks, shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks to the terminal villas, moulded octagonal cans, and moulded eaves guttering are also present. The interiors were not inspected in 1990. A low, coped boundary wall runs along the street.