34 Brighton Place, Edinburgh

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824. Mirrored pair of 2-storey, 3-bay classical terraced houses with single storey flanking pavilions. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled at ground; droved ashlar to pavilions; squared and snecked sandstone side elevations and rear; stugged ashlar to NE elevation of single storey pavilions. Band courses between basement and ground floor, ground and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course; coping and band course pavilion.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 steps (with original cast-iron handrail at No 34) to deep-set Edinburgh panelled doors in outer bays; radial rectangular fanlights and windows above each. Windows to each floor in intermediate bays. Window and boarded door to pavilion (door blinded to No 34).

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: bay to centre of each blank; later door blinded at ground (bay to centre); window to wing; single storey later addition to outer left of wing with window and door to SW. Rear of

No 36 not seen, 1994.

NE ELEVATION: stair window to main house; boarded door with plate glass rectangular fanlight and 2 flanking blinded windows in single storey pavilion.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; lean-to roof to wing and rear addition. Rendered and coped mutual stack to front; brick and rendered mutual stack to rear; truncated ashlar and coped wallhead stack to NE; ashlar wallhead stack to rear of No 34; tall ashlar and coped wallhead stack to rear of No 36; rendered and coped truncated wallhead stack to front of SW elevation.

INTERIORS: shutters in situ and fixed in No 34; cast-iron banister; good plaster work; classical wooden chimneypiece in front room at ground floor, with urn motif and fluted panels. Original cast-iron banister in No 36; plaster work as in No 34.

BOUNDARY WALL: sandstone (originally droved ashlar, now badly weathered) and coped wall to front, formerly with railings. Tall rubble garden walls to rear.