34A Raeburn Place, Edinburgh

Probably James Milne, 1814; early 20th century single storey block to S, re-modelled at back by Dick Peddie and Walker Todd, 1935. 2-storey, basement and attic, 6-bay double villa, comprising 2 3-bay mirrored houses. Tooled coursed sandstone ashlar with polished dressings to principal elevation; tooled squared and snecked sandstone to rear. Entablatured and architraved doorways; long and short quoins; first floor cill course; eaves cornice; eaves blocking course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; doorways reached by stone steps to centre to bays of

ground floor, panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights, flanking bays to left and right obscured by single storey retail units (see below); regular fenestration to 1st floor; 4-light canted dormer to left of attic floor, modern and 2-pane skylights to centre and right of attic. No 34a Raeburn Place: Single storey, cement-faced, flat-roofed bank advanced to ground floor of No 34 Raeburn Place: asymmetrical; granite faced base course; architraved doorway with carved husk decoration, 2-leaf panelled timber door; 2-light plate-glass windows flanking to left and above with simple geometric glazing pattern; cornice carved with Greek key motif; left and right returns blank. See separate listing for Nos 30C-D obscuring ground floor to right.

E ELEVATION: gabled.

N ELEVATION: irregularly placed door and window openings to basement floor; window to ground floor; regularly placed window to 1st floor; rectangular dormers to attic.

W ELEVATION: gabled; 2 windows to ground floor, window centred to 1st floor.

Predominantly 12-pane and 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews. Coped gablehead and wallhead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: bank interior remodelled, decorative cornicing survives; other interiors not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped sandstone rubble boundary walls to rear.