9 Upper Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

11 Upper Gilmore Place is a two-storey terrace house built in 1810, designed in a classical style. The building has a rectangular plan and is part of a symmetrical row that resembles a classical palace block. It is constructed of rubble sandstone with painted margins, while No 11 is painted, and the northeast elevation is rendered. A polished ashlar cill course runs along the ground level, and there is a cornice and a pediment featuring a glazed oval oculus at the centre, which is advanced and consists of three bays. The advanced section has quoins, and the blocking course extends to the sides of the pediment. All margins are painted, except for those of No 7.

On the northwest (entrance) elevation, there are single windows on the first floor of all bays, with a single window in the ground floor of the central bay and a small square light to the right. The flanking bays have corniced doorpieces with panelled timber doors and plate glass fanlights. The ground floor features single windows flanking the advanced section and tripartite windows with narrow flanking lights in the penultimate bays. The outer right and left bays contain doorpieces, with the outer right featuring fluted Doric columns and a dentilled cornice above its doorpiece. The panelled timber doors here also have plate glass fanlights.

The windows of Nos 7 and 13 have 12 panes and are timber sash and case, while Nos 9 and 11 have 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended shape with skylights, and the pediment is also piended. There are coped stacks at the apex of the pediment and on the northeast wallhead, as well as coped gablehead stacks with tall cylindrical corniced cans. The building features cast-iron rainwater goods and an iron gate with a round-arched top leading to No 13.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The boundary walls consist of low coped coursed rubble walls along the street and a high coped rubble boundary wall bordering the northeast side of the front garden of No 13.