1-2 West Newington Place, Edinburgh

1-2 West Newington Place in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building designed by Thomas Brown around 1825, with some later alterations. The structure is three stories high and features eight bays, presenting a symmetrical facade to Newington Road, where it includes later 19th-century shops that project towards the street at the ground level. Additionally, there is a four-story and basement corner tenement with five by four bays, also featuring shops at the ground level, located at No 56 Newington Road and 2 West Newington Place.

The building is constructed from droved cream sandstone, with ashlar used for the ground floor of the corner tenement and for decorative dressings. Architectural details include a base course, channelling on the painted ground floor of No 56 and 2 West Newington Place, a band course, panelled aprons beneath the first-floor windows, a cill course on the second floor, a cornice at the third floor, and a blocking course at the top.

On the east elevation facing Newington Road, the shops at ground level are set forward, except for No 56, which features a central doorway to the shop on the outer right, with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. A modern window has replaced two original windows flanking the door to the right, while the upper floors maintain regular fenestration for Nos 58-68.

The north elevation facing West Newington Place includes a tenement doorway on the outer right, also with a panelled door and plate glass fanlight, and regular fenestration above and to the left. There are blind windows on all floors in the bay to the penultimate left.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case types at 56 Newington Road and 2 West Newington Place, with some plate glass present. The first and second floors of Nos 58-68 feature plate glass windows. The roof is a grey slate platformed design, with coped, rendered wallhead stacks.

Original railings are present at the steps leading to both doors at 56 Newington Road and 2 West Newington Place, while replacement railings are found at the street level.