19-19A Albany Street, Edinburgh

17 Albany Street is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey building with an attic and basement, forming part of a 15-bay classical terrace that consists of five three-bay houses, which step down to the east. The building is constructed from polished ashlar sandstone, featuring V-jointed rustication at the principal floor and droved ashlar at the basement. It has a base course, a band course between the basement and principal floor, another band course between the principal and first floor, and a cill course at the first floor. The first floor is topped with a mutuled cornice and a blocking course. The entrance features ashlar steps and platforms that overhang the basement.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a variety of six-panel and nine-panel timber doors set in tripartite doorpieces in the right bays at the principal floor, each with plate glass semicircular fanlights, except for No 15, which retains a radial semicircular fanlight and glazed sidelights. The remaining bays at the principal floor have windows, with regular fenestration on the upper floors and basement. The basement area is flagged.

The west elevation is adjacent to another terrace, which is listed separately (9, 9A, 9B Albany Street), as is the east elevation (21-23A Albany Street).

The building predominantly features plate glass timber sash and case windows and has grey slate roofs. There are various dormers, including a tripartite rectangular dormer and a slate-hung bow-fronted dormer at No 11, piended box dormers and polygonally piended canted dormers at Nos 13 and 15, a pair of polygonally piended canted dormers at No 17, and another pair of polygonally piended canted dormers with blinded sides at No 19. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered and polished ashlar ridge stacks with copings, and a variety of chimney cans. The skews are also coped.

The interiors were not seen in 1998, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials.