15 Smith's Place, Edinburgh

15 Smith's Place in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century pair of classical houses, featuring two storeys over a basement and a six-bay mirrored design. The front is made of polished sandstone ashlar, with droved stone at the basement and first floors. There is a band course below the principal and first floors, with rusticated masonry in between and voussoirs above the window and door openings. The eaves have a cornice with a blocking course above. The entrance doors are located in the outer bays on the principal floor.

The windows are timber sash and case, with four panes in the first to third bays and casements added below the upper sashes in the second and third bays. The fourth to sixth bays have plate glass, except for the basement windows, which feature twelve panes. The entrance to No 13 has a four-panelled door with a plain fanlight above, while the basement (in bay 2) has a flush-beaded six-panel door with a three-pane fanlight over it. No 15 has a modern door. The roof is grey slate, with a canted bipartite dormer window in the third bay and a tripartite, slate-hung, piend-roofed bay window in the fourth bay.

There is a central skew with a shared ashlar and brick stack at the apex, featuring a variety of circular cans. Access to the entrance doors is via concrete-covered stone stairs, with a wrought iron handrail featuring an urn finial and a surviving basement gate at No 13, while No 15 has a modern iron handrail. A coursed rubble wall with coped top and urn and arrow finials remains at No 15.