58 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

58 Palmerston Place in Edinburgh is a row of terraced houses built between 1877 and 1880 by John Chesser. The buildings are three storeys high, with a basement and attic, featuring three-storey canted bays. They are constructed from polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and the basement is finished in droved sandstone. Architectural details include a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors as well as between the first and second floors, and corniced canted bays. The design is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course at the canted bays, along with coped skews and a consoled cornice above keystoned, depressed-arch doorpieces.

The principal elevation features four two-bay houses numbered 54 to 60. At the basement, there is a window beneath an oversailing platt to the left bay. The central door, located to the right of the platt, has a fanlight above it. The right canted bay has a light at its centre and steps leading down from the street. The ground floor includes ashlar steps and an entrance platt to the left bay, leading to a deep-set panelled timber door flanked by narrow lights and a depressed arch fanlight. Each floor above has single windows, and the right canted bay features lights on all three floors. The roof has a variety of dormers, except for No 60, which includes modern slate-hung two-light box dormers for Nos 54 and 56, a round-headed single-light dormer for No 58, and a triangular-headed bipartite dormer on the right.

No 62 is an advanced three-bay end house adjoining No 31 Douglas Crescent. It has a light at the centre of its outer canted bays in the basement, a part-glazed timber door to the left of the platt, and a window beneath the platt. The ground floor features a doorpiece similar to the others, with a single window above and a dormer at the roof. The house is flanked by three-light canted bays, each with canted dormers on the roof.

The windows throughout are 2-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped polished, channelled sandstone ashlar stacks with tall, moulded cylindrical and octagonal cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The property is enhanced by spear-headed railings set in coping along the street and at the steps and entrance platts, while plain railings lead to the basement steps from the street at the right of each house.