23 Chester Street, Edinburgh

John Lessels, 1862-70. 3-storey, attic and basement, astylar renaissance terrace comprising unified façade of 3-bay townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved to basement, channelled at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course. Banded cill course to 1st and 2nd floors (bracketed at 2nd floor). Corniced eaves course. Round arched doorways. Architraved and corniced segmental arched openings at 1st floor; small rosettes in cornice to alternating bays. Moulded architraved windows at 2nd floor. Breakfronted cast-iron balconies at 1st floor windows, missing at No. 29.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Timber 6-panel doors with plain fanlights. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge stacks; modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.