2 Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1874. 3-storey over basement terrace of townhouses in Free Renaissance style with prominent 2-storey, 4-light canted, balustraded bays; set into ground falling to NE. Sandstone ashlar; droved at basement. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Banded base course; banded cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors (moulded to canted bays). Corniced eaves course. Round arched surrounds to main doorways, keystoned and corniced with moulded console brackets; semicircular fanlight over, narrow sidelights. Moulded architraved windows to canted bay at ground and 1st floors. Moulded bracketed and corniced 1st floor windows with advanced bracketed cills. Moulded architraved windows at 2nd floor (tripartite above canted bay) with advanced bracketed cills. Later rectangular tile hung dormer to No. 2

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar gable end and ridge stacks; modern clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings edging basement area to street.

INTERIOR: characterised by highly decorative classical scheme with intricate cornices. Large entrance vestibules with deep cornice and tiled floors, predominantly timber stairs with carved newel posts, topped by large cupolas with decorative plasterwork beneath. Highly decorative plasterwork and some large marble fire surrounds to ground and 1st floor drawing rooms. Later conversion to flats throughout terrace (2009).