28 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh

28 Polwarth Terrace in Edinburgh is a pair of semi-detached houses designed by McArthy & Watson in 1896. These two-storey homes have a rectangular plan and feature a basement at the rear. They are constructed from cream squared and snecked rubble with red ashlar dressings, and include chamfered reveals, a first-floor cill course, and ashlar mullions. The eaves are timber-bracketed and overhang the bellcast roof, while the canted windows have finialled ogee roofs.

The entrance elevation faces southeast and is asymmetrical. It features a central single-storey bowed timber entrance porch set on a rubble base, with panelled doors flanked by two multi-pane narrow windows on each side. These windows are divided by carved timber colonnettes, topped with a moulded frieze and cornice. To the left, there is a two-storey canted ashlar window that breaks the eaves, and to the outer right, a two-storey canted ashlar angle window. There is a single window at ground floor level to the right of centre, and a bipartite window in the bay to the left of centre, with paired bipartite windows in the bay to the right of centre. Above the entrance, there is an ornamental carved timber gablet ventilator with a finial in the central roof pitch.

The northwest rear elevation is three storeys high and has four bays, featuring a central shouldered wallhead stack. Each bay and floor has one window, except for the inner bays at the basement level, which have two bipartite windows.

The northeast and southwest elevations are mostly blank, with only single ground floor windows located at the outer left on the southwest side and the outer right on the northeast side.

The windows are primarily made of plate glass timber sash and case, with bipartite windows at the front that have 4-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The front bay has a Scottish slate bellcast piend roof, while the front roof behind it features green slate ogee roofs. There are two coped shouldered wallhead stacks on the northeast and southwest sides, and one at the rear. Decorative cast-iron gutterheads are also present.

The interior was not seen in 1992. The property includes a low rubble wall with saddleback coping, along with decorative cast-iron railings and gates for both pedestrian and carriage access at No 28.