7, 9 Smith's Place, Edinburgh

7 and 9 Smith's Place in Edinburgh are early 19th-century, two-storey houses built over a basement. They form a six-bay mirrored pair of classical houses that are now used as a single building, featuring a raised wallhead that creates a terrace centerpiece. The front is made of sandstone ashlar, with a pebble-rusticated basement and droved finish on the first floor. There are band courses below the principal and first floors, with rusticated masonry in between and voussoirs above the openings.

At the eaves, there is a mutuled cornice that returns at the ends, topped with a blocking course. Access to the entrance doors, located at the third and fourth bays, is via a pair of concrete-covered stone stairs with metal handrails and a shared iron lamp bracket at the pavement. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass on the principal floor and 12 panes on the first floor, except for a 3-pane window at the fourth bay. The basement windows have modern glazing and timber infill, while there are two-leaf boarded doors between the center bays. The roof is grey slate with a piend-roof and slate-hung canted dormers at the first and sixth bays; the first bay has modern glazing, while the sixth bay features a 4-pane timber sash and case window. The building has ashlar, coped apex stacks, with some circular cans remaining.

A coursed rubble and coped wall lines the street, with railings removed at No 7 and arrow and urn finials on the railing at No 9.