31-29 York Place, Edinburgh

31-29 York Place is a later 18th century, three-storey terraced classical house with an attic and basement. It features five bays and is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. The building has a base course, band courses between the basement and principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floor, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice at the second floor. The second floor has projecting cills, and there are ashlar steps and entrance platts that oversail the basement.

The northern (principal) elevation has a round-arched doorway at the centre of the principal floor, which includes a four-panel timber door with a plate glass semicircular fanlight. To the outer left at the principal floor, there is a flush-panelled timber common stair door with a six-pane rectangular fanlight. The remaining bays at the principal floor contain windows, and there is regular fenestration on the upper floors and basement. The basement area is flagged.

The western elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately as 27 York Place, while the eastern elevation adjoins another terrace listed as 33-37 York Place. The southern (rear) elevation was not seen as of 1998.

The house features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate M-roof. There is a rectangular slate-hung tripartite dormer and a modern slate-hung box dormer that is fronted by a canted timber window. Modern skylights are also present. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods, broached ashlar and rendered ridge stacks, and a rendered stack that breaks the pitch, all coped with circular cans. The skews are coped as well.

The interiors were not seen as of 1998. The property is also adorned with ashlar copes that are topped by cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials.