8 South Fort Street, Edinburgh

8 South Fort Street in Edinburgh is a pair of mirrored, classical terraced houses built around 1815. They are two stories tall, with a basement and attic, and feature three bays. The exterior is made of cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings, rock-faced stone at the basement, and polished ashlar rustication at the ground level. The first floor is finished with droved stone. Architectural details include a base course and band course at the ground level, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course.

The houses have regular fenestration, with fluted aprons on the first-floor windows. There are steps leading to panelled, deep-set doors in the inner bays, and rectangular fanlights above the doors, with fan glazing present at No 10. The dormers vary, with No 10 featuring a piended roof (one canted) and No 8 having flat-roofed dormers (one tripartite and one bipartite).

Both houses have three-bay basements with doors at the center. The windows are fitted with plate glass timber sash and case glazing. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped stacks.

Inside, the lobbies feature decorative glazed tripartite vestibule screens, with No 8 showcasing a Roman Doric frieze and No 10 displaying Adamesque reliefs. The entrance steps are made of ashlar, and there is a saddleback base for the cast-iron spearhead railings.