27 Manor Place, Edinburgh

25 Manor Place in Edinburgh is an extensive Classical terrace built by Robert Brown between 1825 and 1835. The terrace features a unified façade of two- and three-storey townhouses with attics and basements, including main-door and common stair flats. There are later attic additions, such as an extra ashlar attic storey to number 27 and box dormers to numbers 26 and 29. The corner blocks, which are slightly advanced to the north and south, consist of five bays. The basement area includes some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with a droved finish at the basement and a channelled finish at the ground floor. The entrance platts oversail the basement, and there is a banded base course and a banded cill course at the first and second floors. The corniced eaves course and stepped, balustraded parapet adorn the corner blocks. The main entrance features timber six-panel doors with plain doorpieces and a rectangular fanlight above. The corner blocks have round-arched doorways with narrow sidelights and plain fanlights, as well as round-arched recessed windows at the ground floor. The first-floor windows have moulded architraves, while those on the corner blocks are architraved and corniced, with the centre bay of the corner blocks featuring pedimented and bracketed windows. There are cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets at the first-floor windows, and later pedimented dormers can be found on numbers 25 and 29.

The rear elevation is two- and three-storey with some advanced bays, constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar cills, lintels, and rybats, along with some ashlar quoin stones. The fenestration is roughly regular, featuring some tri-partite windows. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with six-over-nine and twelve-pane configurations, along with some plate glass. The roof is a double pitch M-section covered in grey slates, with corniced ashlar wallhead and ridge stacks topped with modern clay cans. The basement recess to the street is edged with sandstone coping stones and features cast-iron railings, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the interiors are characterized by plain classical detailing, including some cornicing with mainly floreate designs. Fire surrounds feature broken pediments, and there are some oval internal rooms with detailed plasterwork door surrounds and cornicing.