2 Rosebery Crescent, Edinburgh

John Chesser, later 19th century. Pair of 2-storey with basement, 2-bay plain classical houses with piend-roofed canted bays. Polished, coursed, sandstone ashlar, droved at basement. Base course; cill course to 1st floor; recessed panels above lights to canted bay at ground floor; corniced doorpiece comprising abbreviated pilasters flanking margin-framed doorway; dentilled cornice; mutual skew.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door and fanlight, flanked on left by small window, beneath entrance platt to bay to left at basement of each house; light to each face of canted bay at right of each house, all floors; part-glazed and panelled timber entrance doors (to Nos 2 and 3 respectively) with rectangular fanlights to doorpieces at bay to left at ground; single windows above.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped, rendered gablehead stack at rear with moulded cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platt to each house; fleur-de-lys iron railings to platts and, set in coping, to street.