14, 16, 18 Grove Street, Edinburgh

14, 16, and 18 Grove Street is a terraced tenement block built in 1822, consisting of three storeys above a basement and featuring nine symmetrical bays. The building is constructed from various types of sandstone, including droved sandstone ashlar at the basement, polished V-jointed sandstone ashlar rustication at the ground floor, and droved sandstone ashlar on the upper floors. The sides are made of roughly coursed sandstone rubble, with polished dressings throughout. Notable architectural details include a band course between floors, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course at the eaves. The entrance features ashlar steps and platts that extend over the basement.

The principal elevation has a layout of four bays, one bay, and four bays. There is a replacement timber door at the basement in the central bay, a timber panelled door with a blind rectangular fanlight at the ground floor, and a window on each floor above. The right four-bay group includes a timber door beneath the entrance platt at the left of the centre bay in the basement, a deep-set timber panelled door with a rectangular fanlight at the ground floor, and windows on the first and second floors above, along with a window on each floor in the remaining three bays. The left four-bay group mirrors the right, with a door to the return beneath the entrance platt at the right of the centre bay in the basement.

The north and south elevations are mostly obscured by the adjacent buildings at Nos 12 and 20. The west elevation was not visible in 2000. The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and has a grey slate M-gabled roof with coped skews. Coped ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks are topped with moulded cylindrical cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen in 2000. The property also includes cast-iron fleur-de-lys railings along the street, with plain flanking steps leading to the door, set on an ashlar cope.