2 Hermitage Terrace, Edinburgh

R Rowand Anderson, 1886-1887. Terrace of 12, 2-storey and attic 2-bay Queen Anne Style houses with gabled end blocks. Cream sandstone, coursed and squared rubble, ashlar dressings, squared and snecked rubble to rear. Chamfered reveals; architraved doors with rounded arrises; ashlar mullions; panelled doors and tiled vestibules; small lead-pane rectangular fanlights.

West elevation (Hermitage Terrace): paired elevations mirrored about centre (except for end blocks) with entrance door in centre bays; single window above. Outer bays with canted windows of various kinds.

Nos 1, 2, 3: corniced doorpieces, pedimented timber dormers above; full-height parapeted canted windows to outer bays; bipartite pedimented timber dormers above.

Nos 4, 5, 6, 7: pedimented doorpieces (No 4 carved, No 5 dated 1887). Nos 4, 5, 7: rectangular projecting windows at ground floor (1-2-1) of outer bays with corbelled canted windows at 1st floor; Nos 4, 5 parapets with carved panels and iron railings to canted windows, canted dormers with finialled half-piend roof above; No 6, 7 canted windows breaking eaves into canted dormers with finialled half-piend roof.

Nos 8, 9, 10: doorpieces with dentilled cornice, fanlight framed by bland rectangular panels.

Nos 6, 8, 9, 10: with bipartite windows at ground floor to outer bays, canted oriel windows at 1st floor above.

Nos 8, 9, 10: carved aprons to parapets of canted windows, tripartite pedimented dormers above. Gabled end blocks with canted windows (1-2-1) at ground floor; 3 windows at 1st floor, windows at centre pedimented, outer windows corniced; bipartite windows with bracketted cill and segmental pediment with carved roundel in gablehead.

East elevation (rear): gabled end bays; Nos 9, 10 2-storey and attic with dormer windows, Nos 1 to 8 3-storey with wallhead stacks; single storey rear wings with half-piend roofs.

South elevation (Cluny Avenue): entrance door and single window flanking to left, doorpiece with dentilled cornice and fanlight framed by blank rectangular panels; single window and tall narrow stair window to right with stair window breaking eaves in gablehead; small pedimented timber dormer to left.

North elevation (Nile Grove): corniced entrance door with single windows flanking to right; 2 windows at 1st floor above; window at ground floor to left, gablehead with apex chimney above. Timber sash and case windows, multi-pane upper sashes, 2-pane or plate glass glazing to lower sashes. Slate roof, red ridge tiles; corniced mutual stacks, wallhead stacks (see above), 1 apex stack (see above), tall tapering cans. Moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads.

Interior: not seen 1992. Low rubble boundary wall to front with cast-iron gates and railinggs (except Nos 6, 5).

Description updated 2018.