2 Bonnington Terrace, Edinburgh

2 Bonnington Terrace is a group of ten identical houses with an advanced two-storey, five-bay pavilion at the north end, dating from approximately 1866. The terrace is constructed of cream sandstone, with the ground level sloping to the south, resulting in basements to the southernmost properties.

The east-facing front elevation is of coursed, stugged ashlar with polished dressings, incorporating a base course, a dividing band course above the ground floor, and an eaves course. Details include jumping downpipes, moulded cast-iron bracketed gutters, shouldered margins with buckle-quoin details, and first-floor windows with architraves extending to the band course below, framing panelled aprons that terminate in scrolls. Similar doorframes are present, leading to a lobby with a panelled door, a partially glazed inner door, and a rectangular fanlight above. Timber, tile-hung, gabled dormers feature overhanging eaves, exposed rafters and bargeboards. Each house (Numbers 1-10) is of three bays, containing a door to the left bay, windows to the right, and windows to each bay on the first floor. Each house has a pair of dormers. The dressings at Number 10 are marbled. The north pavilion (Numbers 11 and 12) is similar in design but includes a central entrance door at Number 11 and raised eaves. This section has three wallhead ashlar dormers with scrolled bases and moulded skewputts; the central bipartite dormer contains an ashlar mullion, a blank shield in the gablehead, and a finial. Number 3 has been painted.

The north elevation is of rubble stone with a central platform and a higher rear wallhead, featuring a central door at Number 11 with two stair windows above, and a pair of gablehead stacks. The south elevation is of dressed rubble stone, containing a pair of closet windows at ground level, a large stair window above, a tiny attic window, and a broad gablehead stack.

The west-facing rear elevation is constructed of squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with stugged ashlar dressings. Houses 1-3 have two bays and a basement, while houses 4-10 have three bays. Later dormers and rooflights are present, along with projecting single-storey service wings to the left. Numbers 11 and 12 are five-bay wide with three full storeys, with the two right bays slightly recessed.

The windows are timber sash and case, with four panes at ground level, six panes above, and plate glass to the dormers. Originally, the rear windows had twelve panes but many have been altered. The terrace has mutual ashlar skewbacks and coped stacks, grey slates, cast-iron guttering and downpipes with buckles.

Low ashlar boundary walls with saddleback coping front the property, accompanied by a variety of railings and gates. Coped rubble end and dividing walls are found to the rear.