23 And 23A Argyle Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh

23 and 23A Argyle Crescent is a villa built around 1884, featuring later alterations and subdivision. This two-storey building has a first floor that breaks the eaves and showcases three bays with Domestic Gothic architectural details. The exterior is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone, complemented by polished ashlar dressings, while the side and rear elevations are finished with stugged ashlar squared and snecked stone. It has a tall base course and chamfered arrises around the window openings, with ashlar mullions and transoms.

On the northeast (principal) elevation, there is a panelled door at the centre with brackets supporting the lintel above, and a pointed-arch fanlight made of plate glass above the door, which features a roll-moulded doorpiece. The roof sweeps down to function as a porch, supported by timber brackets and ashlar corbels, with a small dormer on the first floor. To the right on the ground floor, there is a mullioned bowed seven-light window, along with a string course, concave, and cornice. Above it, on the first floor, is a mullioned tripartite window. The left bay has a mullioned tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor. The first-floor windows in the outer bays break the eaves and are set in gambrel-roofed dormerheads.

The southeast elevation features later external steps leading to a panelled door on the first floor, which serves as the entrance to the top floor flat. The southwest (rear) elevation is partially obscured and includes a single-storey addition added in 1994.

Originally, the building had timber casement windows for each mullioned window, but these have now been replaced with plastic windows on the ground floor. The roof is covered with grey slate, with a piended bay to the right on the principal elevation. The first-floor windows in the outer bays are also piended, featuring gambrel roofs with louvres at the apex. The roof is adorned with terracotta toothed ridge tiles and ball finials on the gambrels. It has profiled cast-iron gutters at the eaves and exposed raft ends. The northwest elevation has a rendered and coped stack, while the southeast elevation features an ashlar and coped stack.

The interior was not seen in 1994. The boundary walls are made of bull-faced sandstone topped with droved ashlar coping.