7 York Place, Edinburgh

7 York Place in Edinburgh is a three-storey and basement, three-bay asymmetrical castellated terraced house designed by James Adam in 1793. It was built as a manse for the adjoining St George's Chapel. The exterior features polished ashlar sandstone with squared and snecked rubble at the basement. There is a base course, band courses between the basement and principal floor, and between the principal and first floors, as well as cill courses at the first and second floors. The building has a crenellated parapet with corbels and projecting cills on the principal floor windows, along with reeded aprons on the first floor windows. Ashlar steps and an entrance platt extend over the basement.

On the north (principal) elevation, the outer bays are advanced, with a round-arched recess at the first and second floors of the center bay. The advanced doorpiece on the right at the principal floor features Gothick clustered-shaft engaged columns flanking the door, which is topped by a corniced lintel. The door itself is a panelled timber door with a decorative radial fanlight. The remaining bays at the principal floor have windows, including one on the left with a hoodmould. The upper floors feature regular fenestration, with an architraved window with a hoodmould centered at the first floor, flanked by windows in round-arched recesses, and a window centered at the second floor flanked by blind cruciform arrowslits. There is a wallhead panel with three blind arrowslits centered at the parapet, and the basement has irregular fenestration along with a flagged basement area.

The west elevation is a random rubble gable that adjoins another building at the principal and first floors, which is listed separately as 5B York Place. The east elevation is also an adjoining building, listed separately as 9-13 York Place. The south (rear) elevation was not seen in 1998.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof that is piended at the center, cast-iron rainwater goods, and a rendered gablehead stack that is coped with circular cans. The interiors were not seen in 1998 but are probably by Alexander Laing. The property is also adorned with ashlar copes topped by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and urn finials.