22 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh

22 Douglas Crescent in Edinburgh is a building designed by John Chesser between 1875 and 1879. It features a four-bay design with a basement end block, connecting the shorter terrace of Nos 23-31 with the longer section of Nos 1-21 Douglas Crescent. 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 between the ground and first floors as well as between the first and second floors, and a cornice at the canted bay on the right and the advanced bay on the left. There is a cill course at the second floor for these bays, and bracketed block cills for the two central bays at the second floor. The building is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course for the canted and advanced bays. The window openings in the centre bays have margins, and the doorpiece features a consoled cornice above a pilastered, keystoned, depressed-arch opening that contains a panelled timber door flanked by narrow lights and a segmental-arched fanlight.

The front elevation includes a canted bay on the right with windows on two faces, a part-glazed door and fanlight to the right of the platt, and a window beneath the platt. There is a window in the bay to the left, a bipartite window on the outer left, and a doorpiece in the penultimate bay at ground level. Above, there is a single window for both floors, and another window in the bay to the left, with bipartite windows in the slightly advanced bay on the outer left for both floors. The canted bay has three lights at the ground, first, and second floors.

The building features 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, a grey slate roof, and coped sandstone ashlar stacks with tall moulded cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods complement the overall design. Additionally, there are spike-finialled railings along the street, set into the coping, as well as railings to the ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts.