63-67 York Place, Edinburgh

63-67 York Place is a later 18th century, three-storey terraced classical house with an attic and basement, featuring seven bays. The building is constructed of broached ashlar sandstone and showcases V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and principal floor, as well as between the first and second floors. The second floor is adorned with a mutuled cornice and a blocking course, while the first and second floors have projecting cills. Ashlar steps and entrance platts overhang the basement.

The principal elevation includes a doorway with a nine-panel timber common stair door and a plate glass rectangular fanlight at the centre of the principal floor. This doorway is flanked by round-arched doorways, each with six-panel timber doors; the right doorway has a radial semicircular fanlight, and the left has a plate glass semicircular fanlight. The remaining bays feature regular fenestration at the principal floor and on the upper floors and basement. There is a flagged basement area.

The west elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately as 57-61A York Place. The east elevation also adjoins a terrace, listed separately as 69-73 York Place. The south (rear) elevation was not seen in 1998.

The building predominantly has twelve-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate M-roof. There are two rectangular slate-hung dormers on the right, and a bow dormer spanning three bays with a pair of canted windows on the left. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, along with rendered ridge stacks that are coped and have circular cans. The skews are also coped.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials.