44 Brighton Place, Edinburgh

John Baxter of Portobello, circa 1824 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey with basement, 7-bay pair of classical terraced houses, with single storey flanking pavilions (slightly set back from principal elevation of No 42; of triangular plan to SW, no elevation to SE of No 44), formerly mirrored pair of 3 bay houses, extended later (before 1856?) by bay to SW. Polished ashlar, deeply-channelled at ground; droved ashlar to NE wing and basement; squared sandstone to SW elevation; rubble to rear and NE elevation. Band course between basement and ground, ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; cornice, blocking course; coping to wings.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 (concrete) steps to deep-set doors in original outer bays, plate glass rectangular fanlights and 1st floor windows above. Windows in intermediate bays. Later bay of broader spacing en suite; window at each floor. Window and boarded door to NE wing; 3 bays to SW wing.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994; 2nd and 5th bays and 1st floor of 7th bay blank. Pavilion to SW projecting slightly with glazed modern door.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; various windows to rear, including 12-pane timber sash and case. Grey slate piended roof with platform at apex. Harled wallhead stack to rear of No 42; sandstone and rendered wallhead to rear of No 44, to NE elevation; rendered and coped wallhead; rendered and coped mutual stack to rear and front.

INTERIORS: chimneypiece in front room to 1st floor of No 42 (top flat); also shutters in situ and working, cornice of exceptionally fine quality. No 42, ground floor flat, not seen, 1994. Encaustic tiles to hall of No 44; wooden chimneypiece to front room of ground floor, original cornices in place, fixed shutters, also in top floor flat. Skylight to stairwell.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar worth coping to front; squared rubble with coping to side of No 44. Tall rubble garden walls to rear.