31 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh

19 Coates Gardens in Edinburgh is a terrace of classically designed houses built between 1871 and 1876 by John Chesser. This two-storey building with an attic and basement features a balustraded design and is constructed from polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, while the basement is droved. The architectural details include a base course, a band course, and a cornice at the canted bays on the ground floor, along with a string course on the first floor. The eaves are banded, and there is a cornice and balustrade, although modern rendering has been applied at Nos 1, 3, and 31. The dormers are alternately broad above the canted bays and narrow.

The front elevation consists of eight two-bay houses, with some slightly advanced, such as Nos 15 and 17, and 23 and 25. Each house features a door with a fanlight at the center of the basement, with lights in the canted bay to the left and a window beneath a platt to the right. The doorpiece to the right bay on the ground floor is reversed at No 31. Above, there is a window on the first floor, with three lights in the canted bay to the left on both the first and second floors.

The windows are 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, and the dormers are either single-light or tripartite, mostly slate-hung at the sides. The roof is grey slate, styled in a mansard fashion for Nos 1-13, and features coped, mutual polished, channelled sandstone ashlar stacks with tall, moulded octagonal cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The property is enhanced by spear-headed iron railings along the street, which are set in coping and lead to the ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts. There are plain railings for the steps that descend to the basement from the street, located to the left of each house.