9 West Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh

9 West Brighton Crescent in Portobello, Edinburgh, is a classical house built around 1828 by John Baxter. It is part of a mirrored pair of rectangular, two-storey houses with a half-basement, featuring six bays. This house is one of three semi-detached houses on the street. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar on the ground and first floors, with channelled ashlar at the ground level, droved ashlar at the basement and recessed flanking extensions, and rubble on the side elevations and rear. There are band courses between the ground and first floors, as well as a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course, with coping on the flanking extensions.

The principal elevation faces northeast and is symmetrical, featuring four steps with original cast-iron handrails leading to deep-set panelled Edinburgh doors in the outer bays. Above these doors are rectangular radial fanlights and windows at the first floor. The intermediate bays have windows on each floor, while each flanking extension has a single window and a door to the outer side.

The rear elevation, facing southwest, is not fully visible as of 1994. It has bays at the centre on the first floor that are blank. There is a later conservatory with lying panes added to No 9, and historical maps indicate an extension to the central bay, as seen on Sutter's map from 1856.

The windows throughout the house are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is a combination of piend and platformed slate, with a mono-pitched roof on the single-storey extension to the southeast. The stacks are rendered and coped at the front and rear, and there are sandstone and coped truncated wallhead stacks at the extreme rear of the side elevations.

The interiors were not seen in 1994. The boundary walls are made of droved ashlar with coping and were formerly topped with railings at the front.