15 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh

15 Douglas Crescent in Edinburgh is a two-storey building with a basement and attic, designed by John Chesser between 1875 and 1879. It features a terrace of two-bay houses with canted, mansard attic bays, constructed from polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and droved sandstone at the basement. The building includes a base course, a band course at the ground level, a cornice at the canted bay, a string course, a banded eaves course, and a cornice.

The entrance is marked by a doorpiece with stop-chamfered pilasters, foliated consoles supporting the cornice, and a margin-paned panelled timber door topped with a rectangular fanlight. Above the doorpiece, there is a window with a block cill and a consoled cornice. The roof features a round-headed, key-stoned wood-framed dormer and a tripartite dormer at the canted bay, which consists of smaller, round-headed, key-stoned dormers flanking a central dormer, all detailed similarly. The building has coped skews.

On the front elevation, there is a window in the left bay at the basement level, beneath an oversailing platt. The central area has the door and fanlight, while the right side features a light in the canted bay. Steps lead down from the street, and the left bay at ground level has its own doorpiece, with a single window above. The canted bay has three lights at the ground and first floors. The adjacent No 21 has a built-out, flat-roofed attic made of channelled sandstone ashlar, with a small window to the left bay and a three-light canted bay to the right.

The building is fitted with two-pane timber sash and case glazing, a grey slate roof, and fish-scale tiling on the mansards. It has coped, channelled sandstone ashlar mutual stacks with tall cans, many of which are original octagonal. The property also features spike-headed railings along the street, set in coping, as well as railings to the ashlar steps and entrance platts.