38 Minto Street, Edinburgh

37 Minto Street is a pair of classical houses built in the earlier 19th century. The buildings are two stories tall and feature six symmetrical bays. They are constructed from cream sandstone ashlar, with rubble on the sides and rear. The design includes a base course, panelled aprons beneath the architraved ground floor windows, a dividing band course, and a cill course for the architraved first floor windows. A cornice and blocking course is raised at the center between the two houses. There are modern extensions at the rear of No 37 and on the north elevation of No 38.

On the entrance elevation, there are doorways in the outer bays, with a panelled door for No 38 and a modern door for No 37. Both doorways have plate glass fanlights and are flanked by Doric columns supporting corniced doorpieces. Single windows are located above these doorways, and there are single windows on both floors in the remaining bays. The windows are made of plate glass and timber sash and case. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have a piended design, featuring a tall, single octagonal roof to the east and corniced wallhead stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property has low coursed and droved boundary walls along Minto Street, with replacement railings. There is a high coped rubble mutual wall and a high coped rubble wall along Duncan Street. Pedestrian gates are located adjacent to the houses on both the north and south sides.