16 Bath Street, Edinburgh

Later 19th century. 2-storey with attic group of terraced villas in a cottage style with plain barge-boarded gable ends and gabled bays to front elevations, sited on falling ground. Squared and snecked stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings; brick and harl to NE elevation. Base course, moulded cill course to 1st floor, moulded eaves course, stop-chamfered arrises with ogeed-arch detail above windows at 1st floor.

SW (MENTONE AVENUE) ELEVATION: irregular group. Bays disposed (left to right): 1-3-3-1-2-1 (canted window on corner of Bath Street and Mentone Avenue). Windows to each floor of each bay, unless stated otherwise. BAY 1: 3-storey; boarded door to ground slightly left of centre (entrance to rear of No 5-6 Mentone Avenue), plate glass rectangular fanlight above. BAYS 2-4: 2-storey; bipartites at ground and 1st floor of bays 2 and 4; 2 modern panelled doors to bay 3, plate glass rectangular fanlights above each, timber-bracketed slate canopy porch; window at 1st floor above each door. BAYS 5-7: 2-storey, on lower ground than bays 2-4; bipartites to ground, bays 5 and 7; tripartites to 1st floor of bays 5 and 7; panelled doors to ground, bay 6; plate glass rectangular fanlights above each; blank at 1st floor above. BAY 8-9: 3-storey, at bay 8, 1st floor at lower level than adjacent bays; 2nd floor breaking eaves. Panelled door to ground; cill course squared down to 1st floor level. 2-storey, bay 9, with 2 window at ground and at 1st floor above. Canted window at corner full-height, 3-storey, corbelled out to square above eaves.

SE (BATH STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay (other than corner canted window); door at ground with plate glass rectangular fanlight above, bay to left, window at 1st floor. 3-storey, bay to right, 2nd floor breaking eaves; bipartites to each floor.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey extensions to rear of Nos 2-5, centre bays of groups, Nos 2-3, 4-5.

Timber sash and case windows with 2-pane upper sashes, plate glass lowers, except to No 5. Grey slate pitch and platform roof, incorporating extensions to rear. Gables with barge-boarding and king posts to all bays on SW and SE elevations except bay 5, SW elevation. Gabled dormers with barge-boarding and finials between bays 2-3, 3-4, at bay 5, between bay 9 and corner canted window. Ashlar stacks to wallheads and mutual gables. Rendered and coped stack, in profile, outer right, SW elevation (prior to canted corner window).

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: stugged ashlar with coping to SE; mainly coping stone visible to SW, if anything.