33 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1871-1876. 2-storey with basement and attic terrace of 2-bay houses (3-bay to No 35), including bowed corner block (Nos 33 and 35). Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone to basement. Base course; band course between ground and 1st floors, corniced to canted bays; string course and band course below eaves at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course; coped skews. Doorpieces comprising foliated consoles to stop-chamfered pilasters; margins to all window openings, except at canted bays.

FRONT (BOWED) ELEVATION: Nos 33 and 35: doorpiece flanked by narrow lights to bay to right at ground (No 33), bay to centre (No 35), with tripartite window at 1st floor above; 2-leaf panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight to doorpiece; bipartite window at ground and 1st floors, bay to left (No 33), bay to right (No 35); 3 lights to additional, canted bay at left of No 35, both 1st and 2nd floors; bipartite dormers at roof, tripartite to canted bay. Nos 37-43: light to centre of each canted bay at left at basement; recessed door and fanlight to centre; window beneath platt at right; door with narrow flanking lights and rectangular fanlight to doorpiece to bay to right at ground; single window at 1st floor above; single dormer at roof; light to each face of canted bay at left, ground and 1st floors; tripartite dormer above.

SIDE (W) ELEVATION: coursed sandstone rubble; window with margins to outer left, 1st floor; gablehead stack at left; wallhead stack at right.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; dormers tile-hung at sides; coped sandstone ashlar stacks with tall, original octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods (painted).

RAILINGS: spike-headed railings to street (set in coping) and to ashlar steps and entrance platts.