44 Ann Street, Edinburgh

44 Ann Street in Edinburgh is a classical townhouse likely designed by James Milne between 1815 and 1826. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a basement, featuring a prominent garden that faces the street. The exterior is constructed from sandstone ashlar and coursed squared rubble, with ashlar rybats at the basement level. The entrance area extends over the basement recess leading to the garden.

The ground floor has a banded base course and a narrow banded cill course, while the first floor features a deep banded cill course that includes fluted aprons beneath the windows. The eaves are corniced. The doorways are moulded, architraved, bracketed, and corniced, each with a six-panel boarded timber door and a rectangular fanlight that has a geometric glazing pattern. There is a two-bay blind return on the northwest side.

The northeast (rear) elevation is made of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, cills, and lintels, and it has regular fenestration with 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates, featuring corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some clay cans. The property has cast-iron rainwater goods and a low broached ashlar wall with droved copes and gate rybats that edge the gardens along the street, topped with decorative cast-iron railings that include a lamp standard with a large bowl shade.

Inside, the decorative classical scheme is highlighted by intricate plasterwork, spacious drawing rooms, and a stone staircase with a well-detailed balustrade, topped by a large cupola.