190 Ferry Road, Edinburgh

This building, located at 188 Ferry Road in Edinburgh, dates from around 1860 and consists of a pair of symmetrical, two-storey houses with six bays, featuring Tudor Gothic details. The houses are set back from the street and have a rectangular plan with advanced end blocks and later additions to the rear. They are constructed from squared and snecked stugged yellow sandstone, with polished surrounds to the openings and long and short quoins. The windows have chamfered surrounds, and there are canted windows at the outer left and right.

The south elevation features central porches that are set in re-entrant angles, with advanced bays on the outer left and right. Each porch is supported by Doric columns and topped with moulded Tudor arches, a blank frieze, projecting eaves, and a swept piended roof covered with grey diamond slates. Both houses have timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights. There are single windows in the inner bays on both floors, aligned with the gables above. The outer bays contain two-storey, three-light canted windows, each adorned with timber quatrefoil details at the apex. There is a later dormer window in the inner right bay of No 190.

The inner left and right bays feature four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the canted openings have four and two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is gabled and covered with grey slate in diminishing courses, with coped sandstone apex stacks on the east side (three octagonal cans) and the west side (two octagonal cans), along with a mutual ridge stack at the centre that has a full set of octagonal cans.

The boundary wall is made of coursed yellow sandstone with polished sandstone coping and features replacement ironwork, providing driveway access to both houses.