15 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1875-1879. 2-storey with basement and attic terrace of 2-bay houses with canted, mansard attic bays. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone to basement. Base course; band course at ground, corniced at canted bay; string course; banded eaves course; cornice. Doorpiece comprising stop-chamfered pilasters, foliated consoles to cornice, margin-paned panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight; block cill and consoled cornice to margins to window above doorpiece; round-headed, key-stoned wood-framed dormer at roof above; tripartite dormer to canted bay, comprising smaller, round-headed, key-stoned dormers flanking central dormer, detailed as above; coped skews.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: window to bay to left at basement, beneath oversailing platt; door and fanlight at centre; light to centre of canted bay at right; steps down from street; doorpiece to bay to left at ground; single window above; 3 lights to canted bay at ground and 1st floors; built-out, flat-roofed attic at No 21 (channelled sandstone ashlar), comprising small window to bay to left, 3-light canted bay to right.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing; grey slate roof; fish-scale tiling to mansards; coped, channelled sandstone ashlar mutual stacks with tall cans, many original octagonal; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: spike-headed railings to street (set in coping), and to ashlar steps and entrance platts.