Duncan's Land, 8 Gloucester Street, Edinburgh

Duncan's Land, located at 8 Gloucester Street in Edinburgh, is an 18th-century town house that was restored by Robert Hurd and Partners between 1973 and 1974. The building is two stories high with an attic and features three bays. It is constructed of random rubble with droved, tooled, and polished ashlar dressings, and has long and short quoins.

The principal elevation faces west and includes a small-pane glazed door at the center of the ground floor, flanked by a pair of windows on the left and another window on the right, with a similar door further to the outer right. The first floor has windows in each bay, and there are cat-slide dormers in the attic. Above the central door is a carved lintel that reads "Fear God Onlye. 1605," along with mason's marks and a royal monogram (I.R.).

The south elevation, which returns onto India Place, is mostly blank but has small windows on the outer left at all floors. The east elevation, or rear, features a bowed stair tower at the center with windows between floors. The outer bays have regular fenestration, with a small window between the stair tower and the bay to the right on the first floor, and cat-slide dormers in the attic.

The north elevation is predominantly blank, with a small harled monopitch addition to the outer right at ground level and a single window at the center with a projecting cill. The building primarily has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the south elevation and stair tower have casement windows. The roof is a graded grey slate mansard with cat-slide dormers, particularly around the stair tower at the rear. It features cast-iron rainwater goods, droved ashlar skew copes, and large rubble gablehead stacks topped with circular cans.

The interiors have not been seen, but the ground floor has been used as a restaurant since 1997.