Parsonage, 26 Brougham Street, Edinburgh

The Parsonage at 26 Brougham Street in Edinburgh is a building designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in 1878. It is a three-storey structure with a basement and attic, featuring an irregular plan. The ground floor is now a public house, while the upper floors contain flats. The front is constructed from squared and snecked smooth sandstone, with stugged stone on the sides and ashlar dressings. The building has moulded cill courses at the first and second floors, and all openings have stone-mullioned windows with chamfered reveals.

On the west elevation facing Brougham Street, the building has three bays. The entrance is located in the right bay, featuring a timber panelled two-leaf door with cast-iron door furniture, set within a shoulder-arched stop-chamfered surround. Above the door is a small rectangular window with small-pane leaded stained glass, topped by a pointed-arched hoodmould. The left and centre bays at ground floor have two-light windows with small rectangular louvred openings above, all under stone relieving arches. Each bay on the first floor has a stone-mullioned and -transomed window with a relieving arch above. The second floor features a quatrefoil device in the centre bay, surrounded by a bracketed design and flanked by two-light stone-mullioned windows. The attic has a window in the gablehead, set in a shoulder-arched surround and framed by a pointed-arched and trefoil-cusped hoodmould, with colonnette or nook-shafts. A trefoil-arcaded stone balcony rests on stone brackets.

The south elevation is angled to connect with the narthex of the church at the ground and first floors, although this connection is now blocked. There is a service door at the basement level. A three-light oriel window with pointed-arched surrounds projects out at the first floor, beneath a stone roof that also projects. To the right of the angled wing, there is a stone-mullioned and -transomed two-light window at the first floor, a two-light stone-mullioned window at the second floor, and a gabled dormerhead above featuring a pointed-arched bipartite window.

The building predominantly features small-pane glazing patterns in its timber sash and case windows, with border-glazing in the oriel window. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative hoppers. The tall splayed corniced stacks, which have been rebuilt, feature ashlar quoins and circular cans, along with stone skews.