32 Queen Street, Edinburgh

32 Queen Street in Edinburgh is a former pair of symmetrical three-storey terraced houses with a basement and attic, dating from around 1790. These classical houses are now combined into a single office. They are constructed from droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar and feature regular fenestration. At the center, there are separate steps leading to doorways that have architraves and cornices, with 8-panel doors topped by plate glass fanlights. Number 32 has a pair of timber piend-roofed dormers, while Number 33 has a single broad slate-hung box dormer with two windows.

The basement features round-headed doorways with fanlights. The rear elevation is made of four bays of rubble, with a later fully rendered brick attic storey added to Number 33 and tall stair windows at the center. The buildings have timber sash and case 12-pane windows, with plate glass in the dormers. The mutual skews are ashlar coped, with mutual stacks that are rendered on the east side and rebuilt in dressed stone on the west; the roofs are covered with grey slates.

Inside, the plans of the two houses are perfect mirror images of each other, connected by an archway at the ground floor and doors on the first and second floors. There are curved cantilevered stairs at the center rear, illuminated by tall windows in projecting bows, and plain square iron banisters. Number 33 has later arcaded screens at the stairs. The entrance halls have been significantly altered; Number 33 features an enriched ceiling and a fluted pilastered archway. On the ground floor, the front rooms have shallow apsidal ends with panelled dadoes and boxed-in chimneypieces, with an apse featuring a mural in Number 33. The single large rooms at the rear have a recess in the north wall (removed from Number 32), and the Venetian windows are partly blocked, with the right light of Number 33 now serving as a door to a rear extension. The chimneypieces have been removed, and Number 32 has a door under the stair leading to a single-storey rear extension.

On the first floor, the drawing rooms have panelled dados and removed chimneypieces, with fluted overdoors and a ceiling rose in Number 33, while Number 32 has a swagged frieze and is subdivided. The single rear rooms have simple moulded chimneypieces. The stair to the attic has been removed from Number 32, with access now via the timber stair of Number 33. The basement stair is boxed in at Number 32.

The property is also adorned with diminutive cast-iron fleur-de-lys railings, which are plain at the stairs.