23, 24 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh

33 Drumsheugh Gardens in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement terrace built in 1877 by John Lessels, with later alterations made to No. 25 by A G Sydney Mitchell in 1883. The terrace features a unified façade of two-bay townhouses designed in a plain classical style, with main-door and common stair flats located behind. The central bays are advanced and pilastered, with channelled ashlar pilasters at the first floor. The basement area includes some vaulted cellars and retaining walls, and the ground floor is finished in channelled sandstone ashlar. The entrance platts oversail the basement, and there is a banded base course along the bottom. A banded cill course is present at the first and second floors, while a corniced band course is located at the third floor, topped by a corniced eaves course.

The doorways are architraved with plain rectangular fanlights, narrow sidelights, and deep stone brackets supporting the cornice above. The terrace features two-storey corniced and consoled, three-light canted bays with fielded panels. The first-floor windows are architraved, bracketed, and corniced, while the second-floor windows have moulded shouldered architraves, and the third-floor windows are plain shouldered architraved.

The rear elevation has some later added attic storeys and is constructed of regular squared rubble with some ashlar quoins and cills. The fenestration is regular, with some tripartite windows at the first floor and advanced bays at the ground and first floors.

The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style, and the doors are mostly timber with six panels. The building has a mansard roof covered in grey slates, with corniced ashlar gable ends and ridge stacks that have modern clay cans. There are cast-iron railings on ashlar copes edging the basement recess to the street, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the interior is characterized by a highly decorative classical scheme with detailed cornicing throughout the ground and first floors. The building was converted for office and residential use in 2008.

At the rear, there is an extensive range of single-storey ancillary buildings, some built of rubble and others rendered, mostly featuring peinded roofs. The boundary walls are made of coursed random rubble, with some ashlar quoins and copes, and some of these walls are integrated with the mews buildings. There are also some later additions to the site.