21 Albany Street, Edinburgh

23 Albany Street in Edinburgh is an earlier 19th-century building that consists of two storeys, an attic, and a basement, forming a classical pair of three-bay houses within a wider terrace. The exterior is made of polished ashlar sandstone, with broached ashlar at the basement. Notable architectural features include a base course, a band course between the basement and the principal floor, a cill course at the principal floor, another band course between the principal and first floor, a cill course at the first floor, and a dentilled cornice with a blocking course at the first floor. The entrance is accessed via ashlar steps and entrance platts that overhang the basement.

On the northern (principal) elevation, there are four-panel timber doors in the bays to the right at the principal floor. No 21 features a plate glass semicircular fanlight, while No 23 has a surviving radial semicircular fanlight. The windows in the remaining bays at the principal floor show regular fenestration, with the cills lowered at the first floor of No 23. The basement area is flagged.

The western and eastern elevations are part of adjoining terraces, which are listed separately (11-19 Albany Street and 25, 25B Albany Street, respectively).

The windows consist of plate glass at No 21 and 12-pane timber sash and case windows at No 23, with iron window guards in the bays at the first floor of No 23. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a recessed piended dormer and a recessed box dormer at No 21, while No 23 has a polygonally piended dormer with blinded sides and a recessed tripartite box dormer. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble ridge and gablehead stacks that are part-rendered and coped, with circular cans, and coped skews.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that feature spear-headed and urn finials.