50, 52 Manor Place, Edinburgh

Probably John Lessels, 1872-92. Extensive terrace, comprising unified façade of 3-storey attics and basements, astylar Renaissance townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; later additions to attic. 4-bay advanced corner block to N, recessed, curved end bay, with 3-bay return to Rothesay Terrace. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved ashlar to basement, channelled ashlar to ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Base course at ground floor. Banded cill course at 1st floor. String course between windows at corner block. Banded cill course to 2nd floor, bracketed windows to centre. Corniced eaves course. Parapet stepped and balustraded. Timber 4-panel doors with corniced and bracketed round arched doorways, plain fanlights to centre. Architraved bracketed and pedimented tripartite windows at 1st floor, some blind windows to advanced corner block. Later rectangular dormers to Nos. 50 and 52; segmental arched dormers and prominent corniced wallhead chimney stack with integrated window to corner block. Cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets to 1st floor windows

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar gable, ridge and wallhead stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on sandstone coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: interior typified by highly decorative classical scheme with detailed cornicing throughout ground and 1st floors. Converted for later office and residential use (2008).