12 York Place, Edinburgh

12 York Place is a late 18th century, three-storey terraced classical house with an attic and basement. It is constructed of broached ashlar sandstone and features V-jointed rustication on the principal floor. The building has a base course, a band course between the basement and the principal floor, a cill course at the first floor, and a mutuled cornice with a blocking course at the second floor. Ashlar steps lead to an entrance platform that overhangs the basement.

On the south elevation, there is a round-arched doorway in the left bay at the principal floor, which includes a two-leaf, ten-panel timber door with a tooled lintel inscribed with 'The Drambuie Liqueur Co. Ltd.' Above the door is a plate glass semicircular fanlight, with a carriage lamp set into the wall above it. The remaining bays on the principal floor have windows, and the upper floors and basement feature regular fenestration. The first-floor windows are architraved with cornices, while the second-floor windows are simply architraved. There is a flagged area at the basement.

The west elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately as 10 and 10A York Place. The east elevation also adjoins another terrace, listed separately as 14 and 14A York Place. The north (rear) elevation has regular fenestration and includes a two-storey workshop built in 1960 for J and F Johnston, which adjoins an early 20th-century seven-bay building on Dublin Street Lane South. This section is made of coursed rubble with broached ashlar side elevations and red sandstone dressings, featuring a modern garage door on the right at ground level, topped with a stone lintel.

The house predominantly has four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and modern skylights. It also features cast-iron rainwater goods, broached ashlar ridge stacks that are coped with circular cans, and coped skews.

The interiors were not seen in 1998, but the entrance hall is noted to have Gothic details. The property is enhanced by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed and urn finials. Additionally, there are cast-iron lamps mounted on the railings with glass globes.