13, 22 And 24 Richmond Terrace, Edinburgh

This is a group of buildings constructed between 1868 and 1882, comprising a freestanding, stepped terrace with access to flats from both sides and shops along Dalry Road. The buildings are divided into nine blocks, ranging from three to four storeys in height, built from squared, snecked, and stugged sandstone with raised ashlar dressings.

The east elevation of numbers 51–55 Dalry Road, and number 1 Richmond Terrace, is a four-storey, three-bay block with regular window placement, including bipartite windows in the central bay. Long and short quoins are present. There are shops on the ground floor, a cill course at the first floor, bracketed cills at the second floor, and a crenellated corbel course at the third floor. The third floor features gable-headed windows that break the eaves, with a finial and blind plaque above the central window.

The north and south elevations present two-bay gabled returns similar to the east elevation. A single-bay return with a ground-floor window leads into a recessed, four-storey, two-bay block beginning Richmond Terrace. This section uses squared, snecked, and stugged sandstone with raised dressings to the first three storeys, and also incorporates gable-headed windows breaking the eaves. A panelled door with a rectangular fanlight on the north bay gives access to a tenement stair.

Numbers 3–5 and 2–8 Odd and Even Richmond Terrace consist of two identical three-storey blocks, featuring regular fenestration and a second-floor cill course. Each block has a pair of lower villas at ground level accessed from the south, and two apartment floors above with a common stair accessed from the north. These are entered via panelled doors with rectangular fanlights. The north elevation has five bays, with a central ground-floor door. The south elevation has four bays, with outer bays featuring ground-floor doors; the inner left bay incorporates canted windows on all floors.

Numbers 7–11 odd, and 10–20 even, are three identical three-storey buildings, similar to those on Richmond Terrace, except the north elevation of each has a central bay with a keystoned round-headed window at the third floor and a gablehead stack. Numbers 13, 22, and 24 form a single four-storey block, detailed as above, but with an added storey. Numbers 17 and 26 are wider, four-storey, three-bay end blocks, having a second-floor cill course and panelled doors with rectangular fanlights. Number 26 is a lower villa, while number 17 is a tenement. The north elevation of these blocks features a three-bay arrangement with regular fenestration, and a bipartite window in the east bay. The south elevation mirrors this design, with a door in the central ground-floor bay. The east elevation exhibits squared and snecked bull-nosed masonry with a central door flanked by narrow single windows, and a matching pair of windows on each floor above.

Originally, the buildings had four-pane timber sash and case windows, though many have been replaced, mostly with plate glass, some of which is considered unfortunate. Grey slates cover the roofs, with plain stacks (several of which have been rebuilt) and ashlar coped skews; cast-iron gutters are present. Low garden walls made of squared and stugged sandstone with saddleback coping run along the north and south elevations, accompanied by various railings, some of which are original cast-iron.