9 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh

9 Regent Terrace is a townhouse built between 1826 and 1833, designed by William Playfair. It forms part of a long terrace of 34 classical townhouses. The terrace is stepped to follow the slope of the road, and includes two prominent three-storey pavilions with advanced three-bay sections at each end (numbers 11-16 and 23-28), along with a twelve-bay, three-storey section at the western end (numbers 1-4), and originally comprised two storeys, an attic, and a basement (although many now have a third storey).

The main elevation is of three and four storeys including the basement. The exterior is constructed of droved, painted ashlar to the basement, polished ashlar to the upper floors, and coursed squared rubble with dressed margins to the rear. Architectural details include a base course, dividing bands between the basement and ground floor, and between the ground and first floors, a continuous cast-iron trellis balcony with a Greek key border on the first floor, a second-floor cill course, eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The doorpiece features fluted attached Greek Doric columns. The fenestration is regular, with architraved windows to the ground and first floors, panelled aprons to the ground floor windows, and predominantly regular fenestration to the rear.

The principal entrance, in the centre bay of the basement, features a timber panelled door with a three-light fanlight above, within a segmentally-headed opening; a window is to the left, and a blocked area is to the right. To the right of the ground floor is a set of steps and an overarching platt leading to a two-leaf timber panelled door with a letterbox fanlight.

The rear elevation is two bays wide and incorporates a small, mono-pitch roofed extension to the centre. An eaves course runs along the top.

Most windows on the front elevation feature four panes of glass, while those on the rear elevation have either twelve or sixteen panes, all set in timber sash and case windows. The roof is an M-shape with a central valley, covered with graded grey slate, stone skews, and skewputts. Corniced mutual ridge stacks are located at the east and west ends, while a small wallhead stack is situated centrally to the rear.

Original iron and stone boundary walls and railings are located at the front, edging the basement recess and platt. The stone coping is surmounted by cast-iron railings with dog bars, spear-head finials, and a distinctive circled border. At the rear, random rubble walls with predominantly flat coping form the boundary of the garden.