18 Straiton Place, Edinburgh

18 Straiton Place is an early 19th century house with later additions. It is a single storey building with a basement and features a symmetrical, classical design with three bays. The exterior is made of finely droved grey ashlar, with polished ashlar dressings and squared rusty sandstone at the basement level and side elevations. The rear is harled, including a central extension, while the bay to the right is constructed of red brick. The house has a base course, eaves course, cornice, and blocking course, along with broad clasping Doric pilasters.

The principal (northeast) elevation has a slightly raised central bay, with a deep-set door at the top of six steps, a plate glass fanlight, and stylised vermiculated long and short quoins and lintel, flanked by pilasters. There are windows in the flanking bays. The rear of the house is not fully visible, but a single extension can be seen at the centre bay and at the basement of the right bay.

The windows on the ground floor are 8-pane timber sash and case (6-pane in the upper section and 2-pane below), while the basement features 4-pane sash and case windows. The roof is piended with purple slate and has rendered and coped end stacks, along with an independent slate roof for the extension at the centre of the rear elevation.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1994. The boundary walls at the front are harled and altered, with a tall rubble wall to the southeast. Railings are in place at the steps.