37 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

Early 19th century. 2-storey, 11-bay, terrace of classical houses, with later additions to rear forming near square-plan block. Painted harl; ashlar dressings. Squared and snecked sandstone; red sandstone ashlar dressings to extension on Hailes Street elevation. Architraved windows; projecting cills.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2 3-bay houses flank central 5-bay house. Doorpiece to central 5-bay; recessed 2-leaf panelled timber entrance door; single windows flanking; tripartite window at 1st floor; raised wallhead; single windows to 2 bays flanking. Pilastered doorpieces to bays to outer left and right; panelled timber doors; flanking single windows; regular fenestration at 1st floor; central 1st floor window to outer left extended.

E (HAILES STREET) ELEVATION: M-gabled. Plain gabled section of original building to outer right. Adjoining 5-bay gabled extension dated 1911. Segmental-arched doorway at central bay; hood mould; 2-leaf boarded door; flanking channelled giant pilasters rising above roofline; dentilled cornice; corniced castellation; recessed blind panels to flanking bays; banded eaves course; blind arrow slits to outer bays; dentilled to castellated cornice; flanking channelled giant pilasters.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with skylights. Coped wallhead, and mutual stacks with corniced cans. Skews.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: Coped, coursed rubble boundary walls to street; modern railings.