43 Ann Street, Edinburgh

43 Ann Street in Edinburgh is a classical townhouse likely designed by James Milne between 1816 and 1819. This two-storey, three-bay building features a prominent garden that faces the street and includes a basement. The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar and coursed squared rubble, with ashlar rybats at the basement level. The entrance has a platt that oversails the basement area recess leading to the garden. There is a banded base course and a narrow banded cill course at the ground floor, a deep banded cill course at the first floor, and a corniced eaves course. The doorway is moulded, architraved, bracketed, and corniced, featuring a six-panel boarded timber door and a rectangular fanlight with a geometric glazing pattern. To the northwest, there is a two-bay blind return.

The southwest (rear) elevation is made of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, cills, and lintels, and it has regular fenestration. The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates, featuring corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some clay cans. The building has cast-iron rain-water goods and a low broached ashlar wall with droved copes and gate rybats that edge the gardens to the street, topped with cast-iron railings.

Inside, as seen in 2010, the decorative classical scheme includes intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms, and a stone staircase with a well-detailed balustrade, topped by a large cupola.