20 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1871-1876. 2-storey, attic and basement balustraded terrace of classically detailed canted bay houses. Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved at basement. Base course; band course, corniced at canted bays, to ground floor; string course to 1st floor; banded eaves course; cornice; balustrade; alternate broad (above canted bays) and narrow dormers. Doorpieces comprising consoled cornice, pilastered, keystoned depressed arch opening containing panelled timber door flanked by narrow lights and segmental fanlight above; consoled cornice and margins to window above doorpiece; coped skews.

FRONT ELEVATION: 20 2-bay houses (alternate pairs slightly advanced: Nos 6 and 8, 14 and 16, 22 and 24, and so on); door with fanlight to centre at basement, window to canted bay at left and beneath platt at right; doorpiece to bay to right at ground; window to 1st floor above; 3 lights to canted bay at left, 1st and 2nd floor.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing; dormers single-light and tripartite, mostly slate-hung at sides. Grey slate roof; coped, mutual polished, channelled sandstone ashlar stacks; tall, moulded octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: spear-headed iron railings to street (set in coping) and to ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts; plain railings to steps down to basement from street, at left of each house.