30 Eglinton Crescent, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1875-1880. 3-storey with attic and basement, bowed, classically-detailed terrace with 3-storey and basement canted bays. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone to basement. Base course; band course between ground and 1st floors and between 1st and 2nd floors, corniced at canted bays; cill course to 2nd floor canted bays; bracketed block cill to remaining 2nd floor windows; eaves course; dentilled cornice. Doorpiece comprising elaborately consoled cornice to pilastered, keystoned, depressed-arch opening containing timber door (2-leaf or part-glazed), narrow flanking lights and depressed-arch fanlight; margins to windows above; blocking courses and ornamental circular-pattern wrought-iron balustrades to box dormers (alternately single and tripartite) at roof; coped skews.

FRONT ELEVATION: door and fanlight to right of platt at basement; light to centre of canted bay at bay to right; window beneath platt, sometimes infilled; doorpiece to bay to right at ground (door to doorpiece of No 26 offset to left, with flanking window at right); single windows at floors above; 3 lights to canted bay, ground, 1st and 2nd floors; tripartite dormers to canted bays; single dormer to entrance bays.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; coped sandstone mutual stacks, with tall, original octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: spiked railings to street (set in coping), and to ashlar steps and entrance platts.