4 Rosebery Crescent, Edinburgh

John Chesser, later 19th century. Pair of 3-storey with basement, 2-bay plain classical houses with piend-roofed canted bays. Polished, coursed, sandstone ashlar, droved at basement. Basement at No 5 rendered and slightly advanced; base course to No 4; cill course to 1st and 2nd floors; recessed panels above lights to canted bay at ground and 1st floors; corniced doorpiece comprising abbreviated pilasters flanking margin-framed doorway; margins to 1st floor window above; dentilled cornice; skews.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door and fanlight, flanked on left by small window, beneath entrance platt to bay to left at basement of each house; light to centre of canted bay at right of each house; panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight to doorpiece at bay to left at ground; single window at floors above; light to each face of canted bay at right, all floors.

2-pane timber sash and case windows, diminishing in height from ground to 2nd floors. Grey slate roof; coped gablehead and mutual stacks, set to rear, with tall cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys iron railings to oversailing entrance platt and, set in coping, to street.