9 Thirlestane Lane Mews, Edinburgh

This is a long, south-facing row of mews buildings situated within a lane surfaced with cobblestones (setts), with enclosed back courts to the north. The mews were largely constructed in the 1880s. The buildings are built with neatly squared and snecked rubble stonework, incorporating various details characteristic of the Scots Baronial style. Most windows are original sash and case designs.

Numbers 3 and 4 form a two-storey, five-bay block featuring a crowstepped Baronial gable rising above a slightly projecting bay. This bay also has beaked skew edges, a leaded-glass roundel, and a wallhead stack. The building has mullioned windows and three pairs of early boarded timber doors at ground level.

Number 5, designed by David Adamson in 1882, is a single-storey and attic structure. Three dormer-headed windows break the eaves, each with a pediment and ball finials. The centre originally functioned as a hayloft, but has since been altered. The ground floor has boarded doors; an original window has been replaced in the outer bay, and the location of an original horse entrance, providing access to rear stalls, is evident, although there is no rear access now.

Numbers 6 and 7 are also single-storey and attic. Number 6 has a mullioned dormer-headed window to the right, while Number 7 features a left-hand, stepped gable with an axial, corniced stack and a horseshoe-shaped finial. A hayloft to the left is half glazed and half boarded. Other openings have been altered.

Number 8 has mullioned windows from the 1920s, featuring small panes above.

Number 9, designed by Thomas P Marwick in 1884, exhibits fine detailing on its front elevation. Alterations include a boarded door on the ground floor which is not original, a door (number 9a) that replaced a window, and a glazed hayloft above. The building has three pedimented-headed windows: a semicircular central window is flanked by triangular-shaped windows, all topped with horseshoe and star finials. The door at Number 9 has a neo-bolection moulded architrave, stopped at sill level, and a dentilled cornice. Original cast-iron columns survive at ground floor, remnants of a former cabinet-makers workshop, a feature that distinguishes it from the other buildings which were originally built as stalls and coach houses.

Numbers 10 and 11, designed by MacGibbon & Ross in 1887, have simpler, plain elevations of snecked and squared rubble, with pediment-headed dormer windows and a pair of doors at the centre.

Number 12, by Henry D Walker, is stylistically similar to numbers 10 and 11, including crowstepped gablets. It has been badly altered at ground level, and the hayloft on the right has been converted into a window.

Numbers 13 and 14 have undergone some alterations; the hayloft retains half-boarded panelling. The interiors have not been inspected, but stalls are believed to survive.

Numbers 15 and 16 feature red sandstone dressings and shaped wallhead stacks, and have been significantly altered at ground level.

Number 17 dates from the inter-war period.