24 Manor Place, Edinburgh

8 Manor Place in Edinburgh is an extensive classical terrace designed by Robert Brown around 1813 to 1822 and executed by John Lessels between 1866 and 1873. The building features a unified façade of two-storey attic and basement townhouses, with main-door and common stair flats located behind. It includes segmental arched dormers and a basement area that has some vaulted cellars and retaining walls.

The exterior is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with droved ashlar used for the basement and channelled ashlar at the ground floor. The entrance platts oversail the basement, and there are banded base and cill courses, as well as a string course at the first floor and a corniced eaves course. The terminal houses have a balustraded parapet. The round-arched door surrounds feature plain fanlights, while the first-floor windows have moulded architraves. The attic has lead-roofed segmental arched dormers, with later slate-hung box dormers added to Nos. 14 and 20. Additionally, there are cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets at the first-floor windows.

The north elevation is rendered with sandstone ashlar dressings, including ashlar quoins on the left. It features a banded cill course at the first floor and a corniced eaves course, with a two-storey corniced canted bay to the left. The centre bay is slightly recessed, with a bipartite ground floor window, a corniced window at the first floor, and a small attic window above.

The rear elevation is made of coursed squared rubble, with ashlar cills, lintels, and rybats, along with some ashlar quoins. The fenestration is roughly regular.

The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof has a double pitch M-section design with sandstone skews and grey slates. There are corniced ashlar wall-head and ridge stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings edge the basement recess to the street, and there are cast iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the interiors are characterized by plain classical detailing, with some cornicing featuring mainly floreate designs. There are fire surrounds with broken pediments, and some oval internal rooms have detailed plasterwork door surrounds and cornicing.