26 Eglinton Crescent, Edinburgh

30 Eglinton Crescent in Edinburgh is a building designed by John Chesser between 1875 and 1880. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and basement, featuring a bowed, classically detailed terrace that includes three-storey and basement canted bays. The exterior is made of polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, while the basement is constructed from droved sandstone. The building has a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors as well as between the first and second floors, and cornicing at the canted bays. There is a cill course for the second-floor canted bays, a bracketed block cill for the remaining second-floor windows, an eaves course, and a dentilled cornice.

The entrance features an elaborately consoled cornice above a pilastered, keystoned, depressed-arch opening that contains a timber door, which is either two-leaf or part-glazed, along with narrow flanking lights and a depressed-arch fanlight. The windows above have margins, and there are blocking courses and ornamental circular-pattern wrought-iron balustrades on the box dormers, which alternate between single and tripartite designs at the roof, along with coped skews.

On the front elevation, there is a door and fanlight to the right of the basement platt, with a light at the center of the canted bay to the right. There is a window beneath the platt, which is sometimes infilled, and a doorpiece at the ground level of the bay to the right, where the door to No 26 is offset to the left with a flanking window on the right. The upper floors have single windows, while the canted bay features three lights on the ground, first, and second floors, and tripartite dormers are present at the canted bays, with a single dormer at the entrance bays.

The building has 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, a grey slate roof, and coped sandstone mutual stacks topped with tall, original octagonal cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. Additionally, there are spiked railings set in coping along the street, as well as railings for the ashlar steps and entrance platts.