2, 3 Hermitage Place, Leith, Edinburgh

2 and 3 Hermitage Place in Leith, Edinburgh, are a pair of classical terraced houses designed by Thomas Bonnar between 1817 and 1825. These two-storey, three-bay mirrored houses feature an attic and a raised basement. The front is finished in painted ashlar sandstone, with rustication at the ground floor and voussoirs above the door and window openings. The first floor has a droved finish, while the basement level is rock-faced rustication. Architectural details include a base course, a band course, a cill course for the first-floor windows, a mutuled eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The outer windows on the first floor are corniced, and there is a bipartite segmental-headed window in the central bay, all featuring fluted aprons.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, there are paired doorways at the center flanked by windows. The first-floor bays are arranged in a 1 - 2 - 1 pattern, with the central bipartite window framed by pilasters in a segmental-headed recess. Basement windows are also present, and canted dormers sit above the outer bays.

The southeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, consisting of four bays and three storeys over a basement, topped with a gabled roof. There is a modern rendered, flat-roofed extension to the two central bays at the basement and ground floor, along with a modern door in the outer right bay.

The front features predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows, with nine-pane windows on the rear second floor and twelve-pane windows on the two right first-floor windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with a M shape at the rear and piended slate-hung dormers. There are mutual multi-flue stacks, with a rendered and coped stack to the left and a rubble stack with coping and droved ashlar dressing to the right. The rear has rendered gablehead stacks with ashlar coping and stone skew copes.

The interior was not seen in 1995. The boundary wall is a painted droved ashlar dwarf wall with coping, accompanied by modern railings.