7 Strathearn Place, Edinburgh

Built in 1877 by Robert Reid Raeburn, 132 Whitehouse Loan is a two-storey terrace of villas with a mansard attic, forming a symmetrical layout with central and terminal pavilion blocks. The buildings are constructed of lightly stugged ashlar stone, featuring polished dressings. Architectural details include a base course, dividing band course, cill course to the first-floor windows (except in the pavilion blocks), an eaves cornice with brackets at the pavilion blocks, bracketed cills to the single first-floor windows, architraved window surrounds, and segmental-arched windows at the first floor of the pavilion blocks. Doorways have carved consoles supporting their cornices. Bipartite dormers are situated above the canted windows, while single dormers are present in the remaining bays, all finished with pedimented dormerheads.

The eastern pavilion (132 Whitehouse Loan) displays a four-bay east-facing elevation. The second bay is advanced, featuring a roll-moulded, round-arched doorway with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight above. A single window sits above the doorway on the first floor, with a further single window to the right return. The roof is a French pavilion style with dormers featuring pointed arches. A two-storey canted window is positioned in the bay to the outer left, while single windows occupy the two bays to the outer right, where no dormers are present. The north-facing elevation, overlooking Strathearn Place, features a two-bay layout with an advanced bay to the outer left containing an advanced tripartite window at ground level and a decorative cast-iron panel to a balconette. A bipartite window is located on the first floor.

The western pavilion (11 Strathearn Place) is a mirror image of the eastern pavilion, with the original doorway converted into a window and a new doorway created on the north side. The central pavilion (7 and 8 Strathearn Place) also has a four-bay design, with architraved doorways in the second and third bays, two-leaf panelled doors, and single windows above. Two-storey canted windows are incorporated into the first and fourth bays.

Numbers 5 and 6 Strathearn Place present a four-bay facade with architraved and pilastered doorways in the second and fourth bays, panelled doors, and plate glass fanlights above. Single windows are positioned above the doorways on the first floor. Two-storey canted windows are set into the first and third bays. Numbers 9 and 10 Strathearn Place are a mirror image of numbers 5 and 6. The buildings all feature plate glass sash and case windows. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks to the east and west, as well as corniced mutual stacks.

The interiors were not inspected in 1991. A low, coped boundary wall runs along the street, and there is a modern, double, flat-roofed garage to the west of number 11 Strathearn Place.