8 Hermitage Place, Edinburgh

10 Hermitage Place in Edinburgh is a terrace of eight houses designed by Thomas Bonnar around 1825. The terrace consists of four mirrored pairs, each two storeys high with an attic and basement. The front façade features ashlar sandstone, polished and channelled at the ground floor with decorative voussoirs above the door and window openings. The first floor has droved stone, while the basement displays rock-faced rustication. Polished ashlar dressings are used throughout, including a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors, and a cill course for the first-floor windows. The eaves cornice is mutuled at No 6, and there is a blocking course above.

On the principal elevation, the entrance doors are centrally located in each pair, featuring panelled doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights, which are blocked at No 9 and decorative at No 13. The houses are regularly fenestrated, with basement windows and dormers over the outer bays, as well as an inner bay at No 6. Various rooflights are present over the inner bays.

The south elevation has not been seen since 1995. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with plate glass, featuring four panes at Nos 9 and 10, while the dormers at Nos 8, 12, and 13 have modern glazing. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have ashlar skew copes. The mutual multi-flue stacks are a mix of rendered and droved ashlar with coping. There are seven stone steps leading to the entrance, oversailing the basement and accompanied by modern railings.

The interior has not been seen since 1995. The boundary walls are made of droved ashlar, rendered at No 6, and feature a dwarf wall with coping along the street, topped with modern railings.