26 Blacket Place, Edinburgh

26 Blacket Place is an earlier 19th-century classical villa, built before 1833. It is a two-storey, five-bay rectangular building with recessed two-storey wings that project to the rear. The exterior features polished sandstone ashlar on the front, with a rusticated ground floor and rubble on the sides and rear. Key architectural details include a base course, a dividing band course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The first-floor windows are architraved, except for the bay.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, the two central bays are advanced, featuring paired doorcases with Ionic columns that support a scored corniced entablature, which forms a balcony for the two central bays of the first floor. The entrance has four-panelled timber doors, with the door to No 28 having two glass panels, and both doors are topped with plate glass fanlights. There are single windows on the first floor above and in both floors of the bays to the right. A 20th-century bay window projects to the left of the central bays. The one-storey wings that connect to Nos 24 and 30 contain a garage door and a square entrance to a recessed garage, respectively.

The windows in No 26 are four-pane timber sash and case, while No 28 has two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is a grey slate piended design with coped wallhead stacks. A delicate cast-iron balustrade, divided at the center, adorns the balcony.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is enclosed by low coped boundary walls along the street, which include a bootscraper, as well as low coped mutual boundary walls to the southeast and northwest.