1-2 Downie Terrace, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh

5 Downie Terrace is a late 19th-century, two-storey and basement terrace of houses with a near rectangular plan and ten bays. It includes an attached coachhouse on the outer right, which features a bartizan. The houses at Nos 1-4 are constructed from stugged and snecked sandstone, while No 5 has a harled finish, with painted ashlar dressings throughout. The buildings have painted margins at Nos 1-4, with quoins, long and short surrounds, hoodmoulds, and label stops on the mullioned and transomed ground windows. The gables above the windows at Nos 1-4 are adorned with wrought finials, and there are heavy consoled balconies over the doorways of these houses, along with decorative heavy square finials.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is a single window and a roll-moulded entrance doorway in the outer left bay, which includes a fanlight and a single window above it at the first floor. A tripartite window with a hoodmould is located in the gabled bay at ground level, with two single windows above it at the first floor. There is another roll-moulded entrance doorway at ground level in the two bays left of centre, with a fanlight in the left bay and single windows at the first floor. The large gabled bays in the centre and right of centre feature tripartite windows at ground level and two single windows at the first floor. A roll-moulded doorway is found at ground level with a single window above it in the right bay. The coachhouse on the outer right has a coach arch that is infilled with a picture window to the left at ground level, and a round-arched entrance doorway to the right, topped with a scrolled pediment. There is a dividing string course, two single arched windows at the gable, half-timbering, and a small castellated parapet to the left. The coachhouse also features water tabling, a narrow parapet beneath the gable, and a square bartizan to the right, with an arched light and an ogee-roofed turret.

The windows throughout the property are 2-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features coped apex stacks, with sandstone stacks for Nos 1-4 and brick stacks for No 5, along with moulded cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997. There are low mutual dividing boundary walls between the properties.