1 Cluny Place, Edinburgh

7 Cluny Place in Edinburgh is a terrace of eight two-storey, two-bay houses designed by R Rowand Anderson around 1895. The houses feature half-timbered end gables, with the first floor extending deep into the attic space. They are constructed from cream squared and snecked rubble, accented with red ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include chamfered reveals, architraved timber dormers and oriels, exposed rafters in the gables, a base course for the canted windows, and panelled doors topped with dentilled cornices and six-pane rectangular fanlights.

The front elevation showcases a single bay end house with a canted ashlar window on the ground floor. The rendered half-timbered gable jetties on timber brackets supported by stone corbels, and features a tripartite oriel in the gablehead. The central houses are arranged in three pairs with mirrored elevations. The central bays have entrance doorways and single dormers on the mansard roof, while the outer bays display canted ashlar windows on the ground floor that break the eaves, leading to canted dormers topped with segmental-arched pediments.

The north elevation consists of three bays, with an entrance doorway at the centre and a bipartite window on the first floor that breaks the eaves beneath a catslide roof. The left bay features a canted timber window on an ashlar base with a half-piend roof, while the right bay has a single window on the first floor that also breaks the eaves with a catslide roof. The south elevation mirrors the north elevation.

The rear elevation has a tall mansard roof with single windows and includes single-storey service projections with half-piend roofs. The end gables have apex stacks, and the windows are timber sash and case, mostly with four- or six-pane upper sashes and plate glass or two-pane lower sashes, along with multi-pane casements for the oriels and single dormers. The green slate mansard roof is finished with red ridge tiles and features two apex stacks, along with mutual rendered stacks that have ashlar cornices and some retained clay cans. The ashlar skews are complemented by coped skewputts.

Inside, the vestibules are simply tiled, and the inner door features a dentilled cornice and leaded panes in the upper panel. The property is enclosed by a tall rubble wall at the rear and sides with semi-circular coping, and a low rubble wall at the front topped with ashlar coping.