7 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh

7 Rothesay Terrace in Edinburgh is a pair of asymmetrical terraced houses built by John Watherston and Sons between 1855 and 1856. These four-bay houses, which include a basement, feature plain classical details and have a single-storey entrance block on the right that is slightly advanced, with pilasters and a cornice. The boundary wall to the east is made of sandstone ashlar and is channelled at the ground floor.

The houses have a banded base course and a corniced string course that incorporates the doorpiece at the single-storey block to the east. The eaves are corniced and cavetto. The doorpieces are moulded and architraved, with rectangular fanlights that lead up to a pedimented window on the first floor. Each house has two-storey, three-light canted bays at the basement, ground, and first floors. The right-hand house, No. 7, features corniced and pedimented tripartite windows at the ground and first storeys, as well as corniced tripartite and bipartite windows on the second floor. No. 8 has four windows on the third floor, while No. 7 has five, with some advanced cills that have small aprons and shouldered architraves.

The east elevation consists of four storeys with a corniced single-storey advanced entrance block to the left, which is fronted by an additional lower porch. There is a two-storey canted bay on the right. The elevation is made of squared coursed rubble with ashlar quoins, and features some ashlar lintels, cills, and long and short rybats. The fenestration is irregular, with a tripartite window on the first floor to the left.

The windows are predominantly made of plate glass in timber sash and case, with some four-pane windows in timber sash and case on the east elevation. The roof is a double pitch M-section, with a corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks topped with modern clay cans. There are cast-iron railings on the ashlar coping stone edging the basement recess to the street, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary wall on the right encloses the garden from the street and is constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar copes.