27 Albany Street, Edinburgh

33 and 33A Albany Street is an early 19th-century classical terrace building that stands two storeys high with an attic and basement, featuring twelve bays. The terrace consists of four three-bay houses that step down towards the east. It is constructed from polished ashlar sandstone, with channelled V-jointed rustication at the principal floor, particularly noted at No 33. The building has a base course, band courses between the basement and principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course at the first floor. The entrance features ashlar steps and platts that overhang the basement.

The northern (principal) elevation includes six-panel timber doors with plate glass semicircular fanlights in the bays flanking the centre and at the outer left and right on the principal floor. The remaining bays on the principal floor have windows, while the upper floors and basement show regular fenestration, with reeded aprons in the bays at the first floor, and a blind window at No 27. There is a flagged basement area.

The western elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (25, 25B Albany Street), and the eastern elevation also adjoins a building that is listed separately (35, 37 Albany Street). The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof is covered in grey slate, featuring pairs of polygonally piended dormers with blinded sides at Nos 27, 31, and 33, and a pair of bow-fronted dormers at No 29. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble and rendered ridge stacks that are coped with circular cans, and coped skews.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed and urn finials.