2 Magdala Crescent, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1869-1876. 2-storey and attic terrace of 2-bay houses with canted, mansard attic bays. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; band course at ground, corniced at canted bay; string course; banded eaves course; cornice. Elaborately foliated consoled cornice to doorpieces comprising panelled timber door (sometimes 2-leaf) with fanlight and margin-paned surround; block cill and consoled cornice to margins to window above doorpiece; round-headed, finialled, keystoned timber-framed dormer at roof above; tripartite dormer to polygonal mansard roof of canted bay, comprising smaller, round-headed, finialled, keystoned dormers flanking central dormer, detailed as above; coped skews.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: alternate pairs of houses slightly advanced (Nos 1 and 2, 5 and 6, 9 and 10); doorpiece to bay to right at ground; single window to bay above; 3-light canted bays at ground and 1st floors, bay to left; No 1 same as other Nos, with bay disposition reversed: entrance bay to left, canted bay to right.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION (NO 45 COATES GARDENS): 3-bay; canted bay to centre at ground and 1st floors; polygonal mansard roof above, with dormers, detailed as above; blocked window at ground and, with consoled cornice, to 1st floor above; blocked round-headed window to skewed gable above; bay to left advanced at ground, with pair of margin-framed windows; single window above with consoled cornice; single dormer, detailed as above, at roof. Single storey, pitch-roofed addition adjoining at left, hidden behind boundary wall (see below).

Principally 2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; fish-scale tiling to mansards; coped, channelled sandstone ashlar mutual and gablehead stacks with tall cans, predominantly original, moulded octagonal; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped sandstone boundary walls to street, with cross-pattern iron railings to some Nos. Extended single storey sandstone wall, with boarded door towards right and entrance gate at left, linking No 45 Coates Gardens with No 43.