11 Eglinton Crescent, Edinburgh

This is a three-storey, attic, and basement terrace house built between 1875 and 1880 by John Chesser, located on Eglinton Crescent in Edinburgh. The terrace is classically detailed with a bowed front, punctuated by two-storey and basement bowed and canted bays. The exterior is constructed of polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and droved sandstone to the basement level. A base course, string courses separating the ground and first floors, and a cill course to the second floor define the facade, topped by a string course at the eaves with brackets supporting the cornice. A stone balustrade sits above, alternating with triangular pedimented single dormers and segmental pedimented bipartite dormers.

The main entrance features a pair of stop-chamfered pilasters framing a two-leaf panelled timber door with a large rectangular fanlight. Elaborately carved consoles top the pilasters, supporting a cornice and a balcony for the window above. Narrow flanking lights are positioned between the pilasters, and a consoled segmental pediment tops the window above the doorpiece. A bowed balustrade adorns the first-floor canted window bay, and a further canted balustrade forms a balcony to the tripartite window on the second floor. All window openings have margins, except for those in the second-floor canted bay; the ground floor margins are moulded, while those on the second floor are lugged.

The front elevation varies slightly between properties. Number 4 to 9 have a window beneath an oversailing entrance platt on the left side, with a door and fanlight to the right. Numbers 10 to 23 have the platt filled with a return window to the left and a door and fanlight to the right, flanking a three-light bowed bay. The ground floor and upper floors of numbers 4 to 23 feature arrangements of two-bay houses with ashlar steps and platts to the doorpieces. Single windows are positioned above the ground floor door and fanlight; triangular pedimented dormers top these. The left side features a three-light bowed bay at ground level and a canted bay at the first floor. The third floor has a tripartite window topped with a segmental pedimented bipartite dormer. Numbers 24 and 25 form an angled corner pavilion, comprising two three-bay sections that are advanced and slightly raised. These sections have stugged basement walls, with consoled segmental pediments to the first-floor windows of the additional bays. No. 24 is characterized by a three-light bowed bay to the right, a window to the left, and a door and fanlight to the right, below the platt. The corner pavilion's design is mirrored in number 25.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with two panes. The roof is covered in grey slate, with coped, channelled mutual sandstone ashlar stacks, tall moulded octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Spiked railings are set in coping to the street and to the ashlar steps and entrance platts, while simpler railings lead down to the basement.