9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh

10 Douglas Crescent in Edinburgh is a two-storey building with a basement and attic terrace, designed by John Chesser between 1875 and 1879. The structure features two-bay houses, with Nos 9 and 10 having three bays, and includes canted, mansard attic bays. The exterior is made of polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, while the basement is finished in droved sandstone. Architectural details include a base course, a band course at the ground level, a cornice at the canted bay, a string course, a banded eaves course, and a cornice.

The entrance features a doorpiece with stop-chamfered pilasters and foliated consoles supporting the cornice. The main door is a margin-paned, panelled timber door topped with a rectangular fanlight. Above the doorpiece, there is a window with a block cill and consoled cornice. The roof includes a round-headed, key-stoned wood-framed dormer and a tripartite dormer on the polygonal mansard roof of the canted bay, which has smaller, round-headed, key-stoned dormers flanking a central dormer, all detailed similarly. The skews are coped.

On the north (front) elevation, there is a window in the left bay at the basement level, beneath an oversailing platt. The central area features the door and fanlight, with a light in the canted bay to the right. Steps lead down from the street. The left bay at ground level has a doorpiece, with a single window above it, while the canted bay has three lights at the ground and first floors. Nos 9 and 10 mirror this design, with an additional bay to the left of the entrance bay that has bipartite windows on each floor and a single dormer above, detailed as previously described.

The west (side) elevation facing No 1 is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble on the gabled bay to the left, featuring coped skews and a gablehead stack. To the right, there is a bowed return with bipartite windows on each floor and a gablehead stack. The outer right has a lean-to roof.

The building features 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, a grey slate roof, and fish-scale tiling on the mansards. The mutual stacks are made of coped, channelled sandstone ashlar, with tall cylindrical and octagonal cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

Spike-headed railings are present along the street, set in coping, as well as around the ashlar steps and entrance platts.