32, 34 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

Probably John Chesser, 1880-1881. 3-storey with basement and attic almost symmetrical 4-bay rectangular-plan pair of polygonal-roofed canted-bay houses. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar, with polished dressings; droved at basement. Base course; corniced cill course to 1st floor (dentilled at 2 central bays), breaking forward at outer bays to form balcony; hoop-patterned iron balustrade at 1st floor cill course level, spanning width of building; band course below corniced cill course to 2nd floor; banded eaves course and cornice. Margins to openings, moulded and lugged, central bays at ground.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bipartite window to bay to left at basement; part-glazed timber door to penultimate bay to left; window beneath oversailing platt and, between exposed rendered supports, to right; part-glazed timber door to right, with bipartite window to outer right; outer bays advanced; 2-leaf panelled timber door with large rectangular fanlight to bay to left at ground; modern window with plain apron to bay to right; single windows at central bays, 1st and 2nd floors above; segmental-headed dormers at roof; tripartite window to advanced outer bays at ground; canted bays, comprising 3 lights to front face, single lights at sides, to 1st and 2nd floors, outer bays; triangular-pedimented dormer to swept polygonal roof above.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone rubble; windows (modern at ground) to each floor at central bays; polished cill course at 2nd floor; cornice; open triangular pediment to central bipartite at wallhead, with flanking stacks.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof with leaded ridges; tall coped wallhead and central ridge stacks; painted cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: turned balusters to railings to street (set in coping) and to ashlar steps and entrance platt.