16 Brighton Place, Edinburgh

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824. Mirrored pair of 2-storey 3-bay terraced, classical houses with flanking single storey (with basement, No 16) pavilions slightly set back. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled to ground; droved ashlar to pavilions and to basements; rubble NE, SW elevations and rear to both villas; bull-face rendered (brick to rear) 2-storey addition to rear of NE elevation; harled single storey addition to outer left and bay to centre, rear of No 14. Band courses between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice, blocking course; band course and coping to pavilions.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4 steps (ashlar with concrete repairs to tread, No 14; concrete to No 16) with original cast-iron handrails to deep-set panelled doors (2-leaf Edinburgh panelled door to No 14) to outer bays of each villa; rectangular fanlights and windows above each (radial to No 14; plate glass to No 16). Windows to each floor in intermediate bays. Window and door to each pavilions.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: bays to centre at 1st floor of each house blank.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; various windows to rear including 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piend and platformed roof. Rendered and coped mutual stack to front and rear; sandstone and coped wallhead stack to rear, No 14; Brick stack from wing of No 14: rendered with coping wallhead stack to rear of No 16.

INTERIORS: shutters in situ, not working; cast-iron banisters. Bowed walls to back of front rooms, ground floor to both villas. No original chimneypieces at No 14; good but heavily painted plaster cornice, to front rooms, ground and 1st floor. Timber with white marble panels chimneypiece to front room, 1st floor, No 16; border-glazed staircase window; slate floor to hall; tripartite vestibule partition and door with engraved glass.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping to front (now broken) of both houses. Tall rubble garden walls to rear with some brick.