19 Lansdowne Crescent, Edinburgh

Robert Matheson, 1865. 2-storey with basement bowed terrace of rusticated town-houses with 3-storey and basement corner pavilions (No 12 forms corner with No 24 Grosvenor Street and No 21 forms corner with 9 Rosebery Crescent - see separate list descriptions). Coursed, polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings and V-jointed rustication to ground of main block; droved sandstone at basement. Base course; cill course to 1st floor; dentilled cornices to 1st floor pavilion windows; bracketed block cills to 2nd floor pavilion windows; banded eaves course and cornice to bowed block, with balustrade at wallhead; doorpiece comprising consoled, dentilled cornice and panelled framing pilasters with circular motif to entrance to each pavilion; moulded rectangular panels and brackets forming eaves course to pavilion cornices. Moulded margins to pavilions and to 1st floor bowed block. Pair of single, segmental-arched dormers to each house, except No 14 (tripartite dormer) and No 12 (no dormers).

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corner block (No 12): 5-bay, symmetrical, advanced. Timber door with fanlight and small flanking light to right beneath entrance platt; pair of windows to each side, with steps down from street at right; doorpiece to centre at ground; panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight to doorpiece; regular fenestration to all remaining bays, all floors.

Main block: 24-bay, symmetrical, 8 3-bay sections: door with rectangular fanlight and flanking windows to each house at basement; 4-panel timber door (sometimes part-glazed) with rectangular fanlight to each house at ground, at bay to left Nos 13 and 17-19, bay to right Nos 14-16 and 20; windows to remaining bays at ground and to all bays, 1st floor.

Corner block (No 21): 4-bay, slightly advanced. Door and fanlight at basement to right of oversailing; windows to 2 bays to outer right and to bay to left; steps down from street level at left; doorpiece to penultimate bay to left at ground; 2-leaf panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight to doorpiece; regular fenestration to all remaining bays at ground and above.

Side elevation of No 21: 4-bay, regularly fenestrated at all floors (2 central windows closely spaced). Base course; cill course to 1st floor; eaves course; cornice. Shouldered wallhead stack at left; canted corniced dormer at right.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof, piended to pavilions; polished, coped, sandstone ashlar mutual and wallhead stacks (rendered coped stack to No 12) with tall and squat cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys iron railings to street (in ashlar copes) and to ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts; plain railings to basement steps.