Macauley House, 2 Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh

Late 18th century with later 19th century alterations. 2-storey and basement 3-bay house with classical details. Cream-painted harl with painted ashlar dressings; rusticated quoins above basement to S elevation; droved basement quoins; eaves course.

S ELEVATION: architraved margins to openings; consoled pediment to door at centre; panelled door with plate glass fanlight. Steps oversailing basement recess. Basement window below stair and in flanking bays (later bipartite to left). Bipartites inserted at ground floor, flanking door. Window to each bay at 1st floor.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: each 3-bay elevation advanced slightly in the 19th century, proud of quoins. Narrow windows to centre at each floor of W elevation.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay. Door to right of centre in basement, with 3 windows; windows to each bay at ground and 1st floor.

4-pane and 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof and piended dormers linked between paired end stacks. Tall ashlar end stacks.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron balustrade to basement steps and wrought-iron railings to recess. Ashlar-coped rubble and squared and snecked sandstone boundary and retaining walls; 2 corniced and ball-finialled piers to W; corniced and platformed droved ashlar pier, stop-chamfered to corner, inscribed 'Lauriston Gardens.' Simple rusticated ashlar gatepiers to N; boarded timber door in ashlar surround under swept archway with moulded coping to W.