17, 19 John Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

Mid 19th century with later alterations, now subdivided. 2-storey, with basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house. Painted ashlar; blank side elevations of squared and snecked rubble, with ashlar quoins. Base course, cornice and blocking course; stop-chamfered arrises.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled basket-arched door in projecting ashlar porch, at centre (rise of 3 steps), plate glass fanlight, basket-arched recess with floreate columns; volute keystone at centre; raised corner-pilasters, panelled at front; cornice and balustrade-parapet; round-arched windows on return elevations. Window with chamfered margin, at 1st floor. Window at basement level in bay to right; tripartite window at ground, with corbels and central tab above; window at 1st floor with corbelled balcony and fine cast-iron balustrade. Full-height canted window at bay to left, with piended roof; diminutive corbelled cill with intricate ironwork window guard.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; mainly obscured by garden wall to rear; round-arched staircase window with engraved glass, at centre; tripartite at 1st, to right bay.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with square-rendered shouldered wallhead stacks, (NE: polished ashlar; SW: unpainted render).

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: stugged ashlar with polished copings and gatepiers. Tall rubble garden wall to rear with semicircular coping.