25 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

This is a terrace of seven two-storey and attic Baronial-style houses built in 1864 by David MacGibbon, located at 23-33 Colinton Road, Edinburgh. The houses are constructed from cream sandstone, with squared and snecked bull-faced rubble and bull-faced banded dressings, and polished reveals. A string course runs above the ground floor. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, and the roofs are covered in black slate with lead flashings, various stacks, and tall cans. Gablet skewputts are also present. Nos. 23 and 25 have basements accessed by bridges. The front elevations feature stop-chamfered reveals, ashlar mullions, and 2-leaf panelled doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights. Tiled vestibules are present. Cusped bargeboards with pierced trefoils and kingposts adorn the gables.

The northwest elevation is dominated by an advanced house (No. 27) at the centre, featuring a full-height canted window swept to a square in the right bay, and a shouldered arched window in the gablehead. To the right of centre are houses (Nos. 29 and 31) with mirrored elevations, each featuring advanced inner bays with bargeboarded gables over bipartite windows at ground and first floor, and a single window in the gablehead. An advanced house (No. 33) on the outer right has a gabled and finialled bay with a two-storey canted window and half-piend lead roof. On the left side are mirrored houses (Nos. 23 and 25), similar to Nos. 29 and 31, with No. 25 notably featuring a two-storey canted window. The leftmost house (No. 21) has an advanced gabled bay with a door and window at ground floor, single windows at first and second floor, and a blind trefoil in a pointed arch to the gablehead. A slender engaged tower with a conical finialled roof is located in the re-entrant angle to the right, featuring bipartite and tripartite windows and a window breaking the eaves.

The southwest elevation includes a gabled bay with an apex stack, a tall stair window with border glazing, a shouldered wallhead stack, and a small dormer. Ornamental cast-iron eaves brackets are visible on Nos. 25 and 33. The interior was not inspected in 1992. A low rubble boundary wall with flat bull-faced coping, cast-iron gates and railings (some missing between Nos. 29 and 33) originally enclosed the properties.