21-23 Braid Avenue, Edinburgh

Style of R Rowand Anderson, 1897. Terrace of 5, 3-and 4-bay 2-storey flatted houses with mansard attic and basement, sited on falling ground. Variegated sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings, square and snecked stugged rubble to rear with stugged ashlar dressings. Moulded cill course to 1st floor windows; eaves cornice; chamfered reveals; ashlar mullions; corniced doors with panelled pilasters, large carved consoles, uniform panelled doors and 6-pane fanlights; full-height canted windows with tall ashlar parapets breaking eaves and pedimented tripartite dormer above; pulvinated friezes to timber dormers. W (FRONT) ELEVATION: centre house (Nos 25, 27) and house to left (Nos 21, 23) of centre 4-bay with entrance door to right of centre; bay to left of centre with full-height canted windows; outer right bay with bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor; bay to outer left with entrance door. 4 bays to right of centre (Nos 29, 31) with entrance doors in bays to left of centre and outer right; full-height canted window to bay to right of centre; bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor of outer left bay. End houses (Nos 19, 33) 3-bay mirrored elevations with central entrance door; outer bay with full-height canted windows; inner bay with bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: raised basements; shallow canted windows to end houses; tall stair windows and rectangular rendered oriels on timber brackets with small windows at 1st floor; attic windows and tall wallhead stacks.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: 3-bay; 3-storey; gabled bay with apex stack to right of N elevation, to left of S elevation; tall shouldered wallhead stack to right/left; 3-storey rectangular porch projection with parapet and paired bipartite windows to each floor to centre bay, accessed in re-entrant angle by curved forestair (original ashlar balustrade to S, replacement iron railings to N); architraved and pedimented doorway on return of projection; bipartite timber dormer to roof.

Timber sash and case windows, 6-pane upper sashes, plate glass glazing to lower sashes at front, to rear 2-pane lower sashes. Green slate mansard roof, red ridge tiles; 7 wallhead stacks (see above), 2 apex sta cks (see above), mutual stacks. Coped skewputts. Moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Low rubble wall with curved coping to front, stepped and set-back at gates, some pedestrian gates, tall rubble wall to sides.