17, 19, 21 East Trinity Road And Gatepiers, Edinburgh

17, 19, and 21 East Trinity Road are a pair of four-storey tenements built between 1897 and 1902, forming a terrace. They feature a rectangular plan and are constructed from yellow ashlar sandstone, with a red sandstone balustrade along the roofline. The buildings have a continuous base, string, and blocking courses, along with decorative iron balconies on the first, second, and third floors. The central, outer left, and right bays have canted windows, while the openings are framed with stop-chamfered surrounds and feature projecting cornices above the ground floor doorways and carved curvilinear detailing beneath the canted windows.

The north elevation includes single raised door surrounds for Nos 17, 23, 25, and 27, and bipartite surrounds for Nos 19 and 21. All doors are timber panelled, with original multi-paned fanlights that have timber transoms and mullions for Nos 21 to 27. There are bipartite windows on the ground floor in the bays to the right of Nos 17 and 23, and a single window in the bay to the left of No 27. Full-height canted windows are present in the outer left and right bays of the blocks containing Nos 17-21 and Nos 23-27. Above the entry to No 23, single windows are aligned on all floors, while the remaining floors have bipartite windows in all bays. Decorative cast-iron balconies are set on iron brackets between the canted bays on the first, second, and third floors, and a barley-sugar columned balustrade is located at the roof level.

There are replacement windows on the first floor of No 23, while the remaining floors and bays feature two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has deeply corniced wallhead stacks facing north, northeast, and southwest, along with circular terracotta cans.

The boundary wall consists of a polished sandstone coped wall along the street, with original cast-iron gatepiers for Nos 17, 19, 23, and 27.