8-8A South Gray Street, Edinburgh

8-8A South Gray Street is a classical house built around 1815, with later additions from the 19th century. It is two storeys high and features three bays, with symmetrical design and two-storey wings on the north and south sides. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the south side and the north wing are constructed of coursed rubble. The building has channelled quoins at the ground level, a cill course for the first-floor windows, a dentilled cornice, and a blocking course.

On the east elevation, the main house has a central doorway with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight, flanked by strip pilasters and Ionic columns, topped with a dentilled cornice. Above the doorway is a single window on the first floor. There are single windows on both floors in the outer right and left bays. The north wing features a bipartite window at ground level and a single window on the first floor above. The south wing has a single window at both the ground and first floors.

The south elevation (No 8A) has two bays, with a doorway on the outer right and a single window on the first floor above. There are also single windows on both floors to the outer left.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, with configurations of four panes and twelve panes. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have piended shapes, with corniced wallhead stacks and octagonal moulded cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is enclosed by low coped rubble boundary walls and features corniced gatepiers with pyramidal caps.