St John's Church Presbytery, 4 Sandford Gardens, Portobello, Edinburgh

St John's Church Presbytery, located at 3 Sandford Gardens in Portobello, Edinburgh, was designed by John Baxter around 1826. This building consists of two classical terraced houses, each two stories with a basement and three bays, forming part of a terrace of six houses, with No. 3 marking the end of the terrace. The properties were merged into one in 1963.

The exterior features polished ashlar stonework that is deeply channelled at the ground level, with a harled side elevation on the northwest and rubble at the rear. There are band courses between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, topped with a cornice and a lead-covered blocking course.

On the southwest, or principal elevation, there was originally a deep-set panelled door in the left bays of each villa. The door to No. 4 has been replaced with a sash and case window, and the concrete steps leading to No. 3 have been removed. Above the door at No. 3 is a radial fanlight, with a window above it on the first floor. Each remaining bay has windows on each floor, including basement windows in bays two and three of No. 3. There is a glazed door in the centre bay of No. 4 and a window in the right bay. A cast-iron lattice balcony with a Greek-key pattern border runs along the first floor.

The northeast, or rear elevation, features a blank bay in the centre of each villa, with a modern glass porch at ground level in the left bay of No. 4. The centre door is flanked by two windows on each basement level.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The original grey slate M-roof has been altered to include a platform at the apex with domed skylights in the left bay of each house. There is a rendered and coped mutual stack at both the front and rear with No. 5.

Inside, there are few original features remaining. No. 3 retains its original cast-iron banister, while the shutters are still in place but not operational. Each stairwell has modern cupolas. Many original doors, plaster cornices, chimneypieces, and the staircase in No. 4 were removed during the refurbishment in 1963. The Church of St John adjoins No. 3 and can be accessed from within.

The boundary walls are constructed of bull-faced sandstone with coping.