2 Rosebery Crescent, Edinburgh

2 Rosebery Crescent in Edinburgh is a pair of two-storey houses with a basement, built in the later 19th century by John Chesser. These houses feature a plain classical style with piend-roofed canted bays. The exterior is made of polished, coursed sandstone ashlar, with a droved finish at the basement level. Architectural details include a base course, a cill course at the first floor, and recessed panels above the lights of the canted bay on the ground floor. The corniced doorpiece has abbreviated pilasters flanking a margin-framed doorway, topped with a dentilled cornice and a mutual skew.

On the principal elevation, there is a panelled timber door with a fanlight, accompanied on the left by a small window, and an entrance platt leading to the basement bay of each house. Each house has lights on all floors of the canted bay to the right, and part-glazed, panelled timber entrance doors (for Nos 2 and 3) with rectangular fanlights at the bay to the left on the ground floor, along with single windows above.

The windows are 2-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a coped, rendered gablehead stack at the rear with moulded cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The entrance to each house is accessed via ashlar steps and an oversailing entrance platt, with fleur-de-lys iron railings surrounding the platts and set into the coping along the street.