6 Blantyre Terrace, Edinburgh

This is a terrace of fourteen two-storey and attic houses located on Blantyre Terrace in Edinburgh, built around 1879-88 by George Anderson. The terrace front is faced with cream sandstone ashlar, while the rear is built with squared and snecked ashlar. The houses are characterised by ground-floor windows featuring pilasters with a frieze and cornice, while the first-floor windows have pilastered segmental arched surrounds in raised panels. Moulded cills run along the windows, topped by an eaves cornice and parapet. The dormers alternate between triangular and segmental pediments, some with decorative lugs and finials. The windows have ashlar mullions and pilasters with moulded capitals. The front doors are deep-set, panelled, and include rectangular plate glass fanlights with narrow sidelights, framed by pilasters supporting a consoled cornice, leading to tiled vestibules and hall spaces.

The northeast elevation, which fronts onto Merchiston Place, is three bays wide over a basement and features a slightly projecting central bay. A central entrance door is accessed by an oversailing ashlar staircase with decorative railings. A blocking course above serves as an apron to a round-arched first-floor window detailed with a heavy cornice on stylized consoles. An ashlar dormer with a triangular pediment sits in the valley between the gabled outer bays. The outer bays contain single windows on each floor, topped with curvilinear gables and corniced apex stacks.

The northwest elevation, facing Blantyre Terrace, features a ground floor band course and a string course at the first floor, incorporating the capitals of the pilasters. Most houses feature a full-height canted window in the right bay, with a bipartite dormer window above. Entrance doors are located in the left bay with a single window and dormer above. There are exceptions; numbers 4, 6, 26 and 1 Mardale Crescent are raised over a basement, with doors accessed by an infilled staircase. Numbers 20, 22, and 24 are accessed by steps. Dormer windows at numbers 8-24 break the parapet line to create attic space. Single dormers are present at numbers 2, 4, 6, 26 and 1. Dormers above the canted windows at numbers 2, 4 and 6 are scroll-flanked at their base. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, although some have four panes, and some sidelights are etched or feature a stained glass border. Numbers 26 and 1 have leaded lights with a blue border to the sidelights and fanlight. The roofs are clad in Scotch and green slate, with lead flashings. The buildings share mutual stacks, some of which are octagonal, with moulded eaves gutters and gutter heads.

The interiors were not inspected in 1992.

Coped dies terminate the flights of steps, and ornamental cast-iron railings are present at numbers 2-6, 20-26 and 1.