20 Brighton Place, Edinburgh

18 Brighton Place in Edinburgh is a pair of classical terraced houses built around 1824 by John Baxter of Portobello. These two-storey, three-bay houses have single-storey wings that are slightly set back. The front is finished in polished ashlar stone, with deeply-channelled stone at the ground level. The wings and the basement of No 20 are made of droved ashlar, while No 18 has rendered repairs and a rendered northeast elevation. The rear of both houses is harled, and the southwest elevation features square and snecked sandstone. There are band courses between the basement and ground floors, and between the ground and first floors, along with a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course, as well as a band course and coping on the wings.

The southeast elevation, which is the principal facade, has four concrete steps leading to deep-set doors. No 18 has a panelled door with stained glass in the upper section, while No 20 has a two-leaf Edinburgh panelled door. Each outer bay features a rectangular fanlight above the doors, with stained glass at No 18. There are windows above each door at the first floor, and additional windows in the intermediate bays. Each wing also has a window and a door.

The northwest rear elevation is not fully visible as of 1994, but the central bays of each house are blank at the first floor, and there is a single-storey extension to the outer right bay of No 20. The principal elevation features timber sash and case windows, with plate glass in No 18 and 12-pane windows in No 20. The rear includes various windows, including 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design with a platform roof at the apex. There is a rendered and coped mutual stack at the front, a brick and coped mutual stack at the rear, and a rendered wallhead stack with coping on the northeast elevation and rear of No 18, along with a harled and coped wallhead stack on the southwest elevation.

Inside No 18, there are shutters in place, a cast-iron banister, and an original timber chimneypiece with an original cast-iron grate in the rear room on the first floor. The front room on the first floor features a classical white marble chimneypiece and delicate plasterwork.

The boundary walls in front of both houses are made of droved ashlar, although they are now broken, and they have coping.