15-19A York Place, Edinburgh

15-19A York Place is a late 18th century, three-storey terrace building with an attic and basement, featuring nine bays in a classical style. The exterior is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. It has a base course, band courses between the basement and principal floor, and between the principal and first floors, as well as a cill course at the first floor. The second floor is adorned with a mutuled cornice and blocking course, and there are projecting cills at this level. Ashlar steps and entrance platts extend over the basement.

The north (principal) elevation showcases an architraved and corniced doorpiece, which includes a nine-panel timber common stair door with a shallow three-pane rectangular fanlight set within a blind square fanlight at the principal floor. This is flanked by windows and further flanked by nine-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights. The remaining bays maintain regular fenestration at the principal floor, as well as on the upper floors and basement. There is a flagged area at the basement.

The west elevation is adjacent to another building, which is listed separately (9-13A York Place), as is the east elevation (21 York Place). The south (rear) elevation has not been seen since 1998.

The building features a variety of plate glass, four-pane, and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes three slate-hung rectangular dormers, along with a slate-hung tripartite rectangular dormer on the right. There are modern skylights, cast-iron rainwater goods, and a pair of rendered and lined stacks with rusticated and broached ashlar dressings that break the pitch, as well as a random rubble ridge stack with broached ashlar dressings, which is coped and has circular cans. The skews are also coped.

The interiors have not been seen since 1998. The property is enhanced by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials. There are pairs of railing-mounted cast-iron lamps with glass globes flanking the steps to Nos 15 and 19.