8 Manor Place, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, designed circa 1813 - 1822, executed by John Lessels 1866-73 (see Notes). Extensive classical terrace, comprising unified façade of 2-storey attic and basement townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; with segmental arched dormers. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved ashlar to basement, channelled ashlar at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Banded base course; banded cill course and string course at 1st floor; corniced eaves course; blocking course. Balustraded parapet to terminal houses. Round-arched door surrounds with plain fanlights. Moulded architraved windows at 1st floor. Lead-roofed segmental arched dormers at attic; later slate hung boxdormers to Nos. 14 and 20. Cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets at 1st floor windows

N (END) ELEVATION: rendered with sandstone ashlar dressings, including ashlar quoins to left. Banded cill course at 1st floor; corniced eaves course. 2 storey corniced canted bay to left. Slightly Recessed centre bay with bipartite ground floor window; corniced window at 1st floor, small attic window above.

REAR ELEVATION: coursed squared rubble with ashlar cills lintels and rybats; some ashlar quoins. Roughly regular fenestration.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Double pitch M-section roof; sandstone skews, grey slates. Corniced ashlar wall-head and ridge stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on sandstone coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: interiors typified by plain classical detailing. Some cornicing, with mainly floreate designs. Fire surrounds with broken pediments. Some oval internal rooms with detailed plasterwork door surrounds and cornicing.