15 Hillside Crescent and 30, 32 Hillside Street, Edinburgh

15 Hillside Crescent and 30, 32 Hillside Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building designed by John Chesser in the 1880s. It stands four stories high with a basement and features a near-symmetrical, four-bay elevation facing Hillside Crescent, and a five-bay elevation on Hillside Street. The building is constructed of polished ashlar stone, with a rendered basement and coursed rubble with dressed margins at the rear.

Architectural details include dividing bands between the basement and ground floor, and between the ground and first floor, as well as a moulded cill course at the first floor and cill bands at the second and third floors. The eaves cornice and blocking course add to its decorative elements. The windows are predominantly regularly spaced, with architraves on the ground floor (only on the Wellington Street elevation), and on the first, second, and third floors. The first-floor windows also feature aprons.

On the principal elevation facing Hillside Crescent, the fourth bay from the left has a timber-panelled door with a letterbox fanlight, framed by a doorpiece with two engaged fluted Greek Doric columns supporting an entablature and a pediment that breaks the first-floor cill course. The second and sixth bays from the left also have timber-panelled doors with letterbox fanlights, framed by Greek Doric pilasters and slightly projecting entablatures above. The ground floor windows have extended cills flanking the central doorway, with recessed surrounds and aprons on the remaining windows. A modillioned cornice is located below the third-floor cill course.

The northwest elevation, facing Wellington Street, features a canted bay to the far left with tripartite windows that have stop-chamfered mullions. There are blind windows in the far right bay, and the first-floor windows are corniced. A returned modillioned cornice is present below the third-floor cill course on the far right.

The glazing consists of plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The roof is double-pitched, covered with graded grey slates, and features stone skews and skewputts. On the Hillside Crescent elevation, there is one mutual ridge stack to the far right, one ridge stack at the center, and one ridge stack to the right, all corniced in ashlar with predominantly octagonal cans. On the Wellington Street elevation, there is one shouldered wallhead stack to the right, one ridge stack at the center, and one gablehead stack to the far left; all stacks are corniced and rendered with circular cans.