53 Queen Charlotte Street, Edinburgh

53 Queen Charlotte Street is a town house built around 1800. It is a two-storey building with a basement and attic, featuring a symmetrical three-bay design and classical architectural details. The front elevation is made of grey sandstone, with stugged ashlar and polished dressings, while the rear and side are constructed from coursed and squared rubble. The basement is rusticated with polished ashlar, and there is a band course above it. The eaves cornice is dentilled, and the bays are separated by shallow Doric pilasters topped with capitals.

On the south (front) elevation, there is a corniced doorway accessed by oversailing steps with railings in the center. The doorway is surrounded by fluted pilasters adorned with a stylised acanthus neckband, paterae, and a swagged urn on the fluted frieze. Above the doorway, there is a single window on the first floor, and a canted tripartite dormer with a half-piend roof. The outer bays feature segmental-arched recesses with single windows at the basement level, with the right side having a former pend that is now blocked. There are single windows at both the ground and first floors above, as well as rectangular dormers with half-piend roofs.

The north (rear) elevation includes a former segmental-arched pend opening on the left, a casement stair window with leaded lights in the center, and a rectangular rubble-built extension above the wallhead with a stairwell cupola. There are two bipartite dormers flanking this extension.

The east elevation is gabled and features a broad corniced ashlar apex stack, along with two single windows on the outer left.

The windows throughout the building are tall and narrow timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing, some of which have 12 panes on the rear. The roof is slate with metal flashings and has one apex stack.

The property also includes low boundary walls at the front with saddleback coping, two square coped gate piers, and ornamental iron railings topped with thistle finials. The interior was not seen in 1993.