4 Cluny Place, Edinburgh

6 Cluny Place in Edinburgh is a terrace of eight houses designed by R Rowand Anderson in 1895. These two-storey, two-bay houses feature half-timbered end gables and have a first floor that is as deep as the attic. The exterior is made of cream squared and snecked rubble with red ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include chamfered reveals, architraved timber dormers and oriels, exposed rafters in the gables, a base course beneath the canted windows, and panelled doors topped with a dentilled cornice and six-pane rectangular fanlights.

The front elevation consists of single bay end houses with a canted ashlar window at the ground floor. The rendered half-timbered gable jetties on timber brackets that rise from stone corbels, and there is a tripartite oriel in the gablehead. The central houses are arranged in three pairs with mirrored elevations; the central bays feature doorways and single dormers in the mansard roof, while the outer bays have canted ashlar windows at the ground floor that break the eaves in canted dormers topped with segmental-arched pediments.

The south elevation has three bays, with an entrance doorway at the centre and a bipartite window at the first floor that breaks the eaves beneath a catslide roof. To the left, there is a canted timber window on an ashlar base with a half-piend roof, and to the right, a single window at the first floor also breaks the eaves with a catslide roof. The north elevation mirrors the south elevation.

The rear elevation features a tall mansard roof with single windows and single-storey service projections that have half-piend roofs. The end houses are gabled with apex stacks.

The windows are timber sash and case, mostly with four- or six-pane upper sashes and plate glass or two-pane lower sashes, while the oriels and single dormers have multi-pane casements. The roof is covered with green slate and red ridge tiles, and there are two apex stacks along with mutual rendered stacks that have ashlar cornices. The ashlar skews are topped with coped skewputts.

Inside, the vestibules are simply tiled, and the inner doors feature a dentilled cornice and leaded panes in the upper panel. The property is enclosed by a tall rubble wall at the rear and sides with semi-circular coping, and a low rubble wall at the front with ashlar coping.