4 East Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh

4 East Brighton Crescent in Portobello, Edinburgh, is a pair of classical terraced houses designed by John Baxter around 1824, with later alterations. These two-storey buildings, which include a basement, feature three bays and single-storey pavilions that are slightly set back. The front is made of polished ashlar stone, with a deeply-channelled finish at the ground level, while the basement and flanking wings are finished in droved ashlar. The side elevations and rear are constructed from squared sandstone. There are band courses between the basement and ground floor, as well as between the ground and first floor, with a cill course on the first floor of No 3. The design includes a cornice, blocking course, and a band course with coping on the pavilions.

The principal elevation features five ashlar steps leading up to deep-set panelled doors in the outer bays, with a two-leaf door for No 4. Above these doors are plate glass rectangular fanlights and windows on the first floor. Each intermediate bay has windows on every floor, with a blinded opening at the basement of No 3, immediately to the right of the door. Each pavilion has a window and a boarded door.

The rear elevation is not fully visible as of 1994. No 3 has plate glass timber sash and case windows, while No 4 has similar windows with a lying-pane subdivision in the lower sections. The first-floor windows of No 4 are taller than those of No 3, and there are 12-pane sash and case windows at the rear. A round-arched border-glazed rectangular staircase window is present on the east elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a piended design, with a lean-to roof on the wing of No 4. There are ashlar and coped mutual stacks at the front, as well as additional stacks on the west and east elevations at the rear of No 4, and a rendered and coped wallhead stack at the rear of No 3.

The interiors were not seen in 1994, but a ceiling rose is noted to be in place in the vestibule. The boundary walls are made of droved ashlar with coping, and original cast-iron gateposts remain, although the original railings are not in place.