2 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh

2 Rothesay Terrace is a terraced townhouse in Edinburgh, designed by Peddie and Kinnear around 1867, with later alterations that included some rooms being modified to connect with No. 3 Rothesay Terrace. This building is four storeys high with a basement, featuring two bays on the ground floor, which slopes down towards the rear. It showcases Italianate classical detailing, including bowed bays and Corinthian column mullions on the ground floor. The basement area includes some vaulted cellars and retaining walls.

The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a channelled finish at the ground floor. The entrance platts extend over the basements, and there is a banded base course. Corniced string courses run along the building, with a similar string course at the first floor, and cornices above the bowed bays and windows. A moulded cill course is present at the third floor, topped by a corniced eaves course. The entrance features a corniced and consoled doorpiece with glazed sidelights, along with rectangular margin-paned and multi-pane fanlights. The first floor has two-storey, three-light bowed bays with fluted Corinthian columned mullions. The doorways have corniced bipartite windows, which include a fluted Corinthian column as the central mullion and Corinthian pilasters above. The second floor features consoled and corniced tripartite and bipartite windows with bracketed cills, while the third floor windows are shouldered architraved.

The rear elevation is six storeys high and consists of roughly six bays, constructed of regular squared coursed rubble with ashlar quoins, cills, lintels, and rybats, some of which are painted. The fenestration is regular, with a full-height canted bay at the outer bays and blind windows on the right side of the canted bay at the first and second floors.

The windows are fitted with plate glass in timber sash and case frames, and the bowed bays on the south elevation have bowed glazing. The fanlights and sidelights feature margin-paned and multi-pane glazing. The roof is a double pitch M-section design, with corniced ashlar stacks topped with modern clay cans. The basement recess to the street is edged with cast-iron railings on an ashlar cope, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.