6 East Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh

5 East Brighton Crescent in Portobello, Edinburgh, is a pair of classical terraced houses built around 1824 by John Baxter. These two-storey buildings with a basement feature three bays and are complemented by single-storey pavilions on either side. The front is finished in polished ashlar with a deeply-channelled design at the ground level, while the west elevation and the rear of No 6 are squared and snecked. The east elevation and rear of No 5 are harled.

The principal elevation has five steps leading up to deep-set panelled doors in the outer bays, with original cast-iron handrails. No 5 has a rectangular radial fanlight above its door, while No 6 has a plate glass rectangular fanlight. Each floor has windows in the intermediate bays, and there is a window in the basement's centre bay. The flanking pavilions also have windows, and the outer bays feature boarded doors.

The rear elevation includes a droved ashlar extension on the outer right of No 5, with a cill course, string course, cornice, and stop-chamfered wall arrises. There is a modern glazed door at the centre of the ground floor, a blinded window to the left, and a half-blinded bay to the right. The main elevation has a blank bay in the centre for both houses, while No 5 has a window in its pavilion and a modern glazed door leading to pavilion No 7.

Both houses feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows, except for the basement of No 6. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design. There are square rendered and coped mutual stacks at the front and rear, along with a square rendered wallhead stack at the rear of No 5 and a rendered wallhead stack on the west and rear elevations of No 6.

Inside, the original cast-iron banister remains, along with a delicate cornice in the hall. The vestibule and front room have a ceiling rose, and the vestibule door is a glazed tripartite design with a radial fanlight above. Shutters are present, and No 6 has a cornice in its front room, which also features a white marble chimneypiece on the first floor.

The boundary walls are made of droved ashlar with coping, with a break to the left, and there are tall garden walls made of brick and rubble at the rear.