2, 3 Middlefield With Boundary Walls, Edinburgh

This building, located at 2A Middlefield with boundary walls and gate-piers, is a three-storey and attic L-plan tenement constructed between 1793 and 1796, which is attached to an earlier 18th-century tenement. The front is made of sandstone ashlar, while the rear is built from rubble. It features a band course between the floors, a cill band at the second floor, an eaves band, and a cornice course. The central chimney gable is pedimented and has a panel below the eaves cornice, with rusticated quoins.

On the east elevation, which dates from 1793 to 1796, there is a pilastered and corniced entrance at the center. This deep-set door is now blocked and has been converted into a window. The bays on either side contain windows, with Venetian windows in round-arch recesses at the first floor to the right and left, and a window in the center featuring a consoled pediment. The upper floor has regular fenestration, with two windows in the pedimented gable at the wallhead and stone-pedimented dormers to the right and left.

The south elevation, facing Middlefield, has eight bays and is two-storey and attic to the four earlier bays on the left, while the right side is three-storey and attic. There are entrances in the first, fourth, and sixth bays, with remaining windows in the bays. To maintain symmetry, the outer right windows at ground and first floor are blinded.

The west elevation, facing Spey Street, is two-bay and three-storey, featuring a small window to the right in a blocked entrance and a window to the left, with regular fenestration above. There is a gateway to the right providing access to the north elevation.

The north elevation includes a round stair tower and fenestration to the right that leads to the rear of the earlier tenement. The building has timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing and y-astragals for the Venetian windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are stacks with terracotta cans, coped skews, and square skewputts.

The boundary walls are low rubble walls topped with ashlar copes. The interior was not seen in 1998.