17 Lennox Street, Edinburgh

19 Lennox Street in Edinburgh is a terrace of two-storey, basement, and attic townhouses designed by John Tait, with alterations by John Chesser, built between 1868 and 1869. The houses feature a prominent full-height three-light canted bay design and a break front with four bays on the left side that are slightly advanced. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with stugged, squared, and snecked stonework, and droved margins on the southeast gable facing Lennox Street Lane, while the northwest gable is constructed of rubble. The entrance areas extend over the basement, and there are banded base and string courses at the ground floor, along with a moulded cornice on the canted bay and a corniced eaves course topped with a balustraded parapet. The doorways are corniced and feature large foliate console brackets, with predominantly timber two-leaf, four-panel doors and rectangular fanlights. The first-floor windows have raised banded surrounds, and there are segmental arched tile-hung dormers, including a later shouldered arched tile-hung dormer on the left for No. 17.

On the southeast elevation facing Lennox Street Lane, the gable has round arched windows positioned centrally between the ground and first floors, as well as between the first and second floors. The southwest rear elevation is made of coursed squared rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels, and cills, featuring roughly regular window placement. The windows are fitted with plate glass in timber sash and case frames. The pitched roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ashlar ridge stacks with octagonal clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The basement area has cast-iron railings edging its recess to the street.

The interior, as seen in a selection of spaces in 2010, showcases a decorative classical scheme with intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms, and stone stairs featuring well-detailed balustrades topped by large cupolas. Some of the buildings have been converted into flats.