9 Manor Place, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, built 1825. Extensive classical terrace, comprising unified façade of 2- and 3-storey townhouses with basements attics with main-door and common stair flats behind; with later attic additions. Slightly advanced 5-bay corner block to N. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved at basement, channelled at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Banded base course. Banded cill course at 1st and 2nd floors. Corniced eaves course. Stepped and balustraded parapet to corner block Plain doorpieces with rectangular fanlights over. Round arched doorway to corner block with narrow sidelights and radial fanlight over. Round-arched recessed windows at ground floor to corner block. Moulded architraved surrounds at 1st floor windows. Architraved and corniced surrounds to 1st floor windows to corner block (pedimented window to centre bay). Cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets at 1st floor windows. Box dormers to Nos. 3, 7, 9, 11.

REAR ELEVATION: coursed squared rubble with ashlar cills lintels and rybats; some ashlar quoins. Roughly regular fenestration.

Predominantly 6- over 9-pane and 12-pane in timber sash and case windows. Double pitch M-section roof, grey slates. Corniced ashlar wallhead and ridge stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on sandstone coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: interiors typified by plain classical detailing. Some cornicing, with mainly foliate designs. Fire surrounds with broken pediments. Some oval internal rooms with detailed plasterwork door surrounds and cornicing.