23, 24 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1875-1879. 3-storey and basement row of terraced houses with 3-storey and basement canted bays. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone to basement. Base course; band course between ground and 1st floors and 1st and 2nd floors, corniced at canted bays; cill course to 2nd floor, canted bay; eaves course and dentilled cornice. Doorpieces comprising consoled cornice to pilastered, keystoned, depressed-arch opening containing panelled timber door flanked by narrow lights with segmental-arched fanlight (astragals to Nos 31 and 25); margins to windows above doorpieces, with bracketed block cill at 2nd floor.

FRONT (N) ELEVATION: advanced 4-bay blocks at left and right ends (Nos 28-31 and 23 respectively), with bracketed block cills to ground and 2nd floor windows. Nos 28-31: modern bipartite at bay to outer left, basement; window at bay to left; part-glazed door to left of platt; bipartite window underneath platt; part-glazed door with fanlight to right of platt; light to centre of canted bay at right; recessed, panelled timber door to penultimate bay to right at ground (no doorpiece); semicircular aperture in masonry above containing fanlight; small modern window at right; bipartite window, set slightly to right, to floors above; single windows to 2 bays to left, all floors; 3-light canted windows at bay to right; plain iron balustrade to 2nd floor, canted bay. No 23: window to centre of canted bay to outer left at basement; door and fanlight to right; window beneath platt and to 2 bays to right; doorpiece to penultimate bay to left at ground; single windows to bays above; single windows to all bays at right; lights to each face of canted bay at left; plain iron balustrade to each window at 2nd floor. Main block (4 2-bay houses): window beneath platt to bay to left at basement; door and fanlight at centre; window to centre of canted bay at right; doorpiece to bay to left at ground; single window to floors above; 3 lights to each canted bay at right.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows; grey slate roof; coped mutual ridge stacks with tall moulded cans; painted cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: spike-finialled railings to street (set in coping), and to ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts; plain railings to steps to basement from street.