2 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

8 Murrayfield Avenue in Edinburgh is a row of terraced houses built between 1889 and 1901 by Duncan Menzies, J Bryan Nisbet, and others. The building is two stories tall with an attic and features two bays with canted bays and crow-stepped gables. It is constructed from coursed polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The design includes a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors, and a cornice at the roofline of the left bay and beneath the crenellated parapet of the right canted bay. The gables have stepped skews and dormers with alternate segmental and triangular pediments. The first-floor window in the right bay has margins.

On the principal elevation, the door is located in the left bay at ground level, featuring panelled pedestals that support a moulded, keystoned round-arched opening. There are recessed panels in the spandrels and flanking fluted pilasters with raised rectangular mouldings at the capitals that support a cornice. The entrance door is panelled and flanked by narrow lights with a semicircular fanlight above. There is a window above the door on the first floor, a dormer in the attic, and a two-storey canted bay on the left with a light on each face. The gable has a bipartite window above the parapet of the canted bay.

The windows are fitted with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, with 4-pane windows in the dormers and some houses featuring multi-paned upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped, coursed, polished sandstone ashlar stacks at the mutual and gable heads, with rendered sections between some houses and tall cylindrical cans. The property also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls are low, coped, and made of sandstone rubble along the street.

The south elevation, facing Corstorphine Road, has four bays with a banded cill course at the ground floor and band courses between the ground and first floors, as well as between the first floor and attic. The windows have margins and block cills, with a window in each bay at the ground and first floors, and a bipartite window in the outer left bay. The attic level features round-headed windows in three bays on the left and a square panel in the right bay. There are two coped gablehead stacks with a crenellated section between them, above a dentilled cornice, and a centered downpipe.