16 Cluny Avenue, Edinburgh

16 Cluny Avenue in Edinburgh is a pair of semi-detached houses designed by R Rowand Anderson and dated 1895. These two-storey, two-bay homes feature mock Tudor half-timber gables and are positioned diagonally to the street. The exterior is rendered, with No 16 painted white and No 17 grey, and both have pink ashlar dressings and quoins. The buildings have an ashlar base course, chamfered reveals, half-timbered gables, and ashlar mullions.

On the south (front) elevation, the advanced gabled outer bays include two-storey canted ashlar windows arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern. Each gablehead features plain bargeboards that project on timber brackets rising from stone corbels, with the outer right bay having a small tripartite oriel in the gablehead. The doorway is located in the gabled bay to the left of centre and has a lugged roll-moulding. Above this, there is a corbel course leading to a jettied upper stage with a bipartite window. The timber gablehead is adorned with floral carvings and two angels holding a date panel. To the right of centre, there is a recessed bay with a bipartite window at the ground floor, and the first-floor window breaks the eaves in a finialled gabled ashlar dormerhead.

The east elevation features a rectangular glazed entrance porch at the centre, set on a rendered base, with windows flanking it. There is a single and a bipartite window at the first floor, and a tall shouldered wallhead stack to the left.

On the west elevation, there is a single-storey flat-roofed modern garage, with a canted window featuring a half-piend roof at the ground floor to the left and a bipartite window above. A tall wallhead stack is located to the right.

The north (rear) elevation has an advanced gabled bay to the left with a single-storey projection and an apex stack. The outer right bay features a single-storey projecting inglenook with a wallhead stack, and there are single and bipartite windows in the centre bays.

The houses have timber sash and case windows, mostly with six panes, while some feature four-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The roof is covered with green slate and red ridge tiles, with three wallhead stacks linked to the roof and one apex stack.

The interior was not seen in 1992. There is also a low stepped rubble wall with saddleback coping and an original pedestrian gate leading to No 17.