14 Moston Terrace, Edinburgh

The terrace at 24 Moston Terrace, Edinburgh, dates to around 1880 and comprises a near-symmetrical group of 29 houses arranged over two main floors and an attic. The building is constructed of cream-coloured sandstone ashlar on the front, with rubble to the sides and rear. It features a base course, engaged Corinthian colonettes, corbelled cornices above the arched doorways, and moulded window surrounds. Segmental arches are used for the lights of the canted windows, with floral carving and cornices above the ground floor canted windows. An arcaded eaves course, cornice, and carved ball finials on the gables contribute to the eclectic details.

The eastern (front) elevation displays variations in bay arrangement. Number 2A has three bays with steps leading to a central arched doorway, a boarded door, a plate glass fanlight, and a bipartite window to the right of the ground floor. An advanced gabled bay to the outer right contains a tripartite window in the gablehead, with a box dormer above showing decoratively carved bargeboards. Number 2 features a two-bay arrangement with a panelled door and a full-height canted window to the right. Numbers 4, 6, and 8 have six bays each, with doorways to the left of the canted bays, panelled doors, fanlights, and full-height canted windows with gables to Number 6. Numbers 10 to 16 form a symmetrical eight-bay block with doorways centrally and penultimate, round arched windows to the first floor, and canted windows flanking the bays. Numbers 18 to 22 mirror the design of numbers 4 to 8. Numbers 24 to 28, also six bays wide, feature doorways to the right of the canted bays.

The north elevation (facing Bright's Crescent) displays a three-bay arrangement with a central doorway and windows set within segmental arches. The south elevation includes a central, round arched stair window.

The windows are timber, sash and case with plate glass. The roofs are grey slate with coped ridge stacks and a carved, corniced wallhead stack to Number 13. Original cast-iron rainwater goods and scalloped lead flashings are also present. The interior was not inspected in 1996.

The terrace is enclosed by a low, coped boundary wall along the street, and a pedestrian gate provides access to the terrace from the south.