49 Morton Street, Edinburgh

51 Morton Street in Edinburgh is a pair of 2-storey, 2-bay houses built in the later 19th century, with some later additions and alterations. The houses are constructed from squared and snecked tooled sandstone, which is lightly stugged, and the side and rear elevations also feature squared and snecked sandstone, except for the harled rear elevation behind No 47. The buildings have a base course and stop-chamfered arrises along the margins.

On the west (principal) elevation, there are three steps leading up to a 6-panelled timber door. No 49 has a modern glass door with new dimensions and glazing in the fanlight above. Each of the four bays has a plate glass fanlight above the door, and there is a window with lugged margins at the first floor above the doors. The outer bays feature canted windows that step out to a square at the first floor. There is a timber balustraded balcony above the centre bays, adorned with intricate pierced pilaster screens on the outer and centre sections, along with a pot and growing plant. The screen design differs for Nos 55 and 57.

The east (rear) elevation includes a single-storey addition to the outer bays, which is constructed of brick with render for No 35 and harl for Nos 37, 39, and others, although not all were fully visible in 1994. The houses have plate glass timber sash and case windows, but modern windows have replaced those at Nos 41, 49, and 53. Each paired group, Nos 35-57, has a grey slate M-roof with a mansard at the extreme outer ends. The gables of the outer bays feature intricate barge boarding, which differs from the designs seen on Nos 55 and 57. Gablehead stacks are present on the side elevations, with ashlar and coping for No 35, and render with coping for Nos 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, and 57. The centre and rear elevations mainly consist of ashlar wallheads, primarily made of sandstone.

The interiors were not seen in 1994. The boundary walls are made of sandstone with coping.