42 Brighton Place, Edinburgh

44 Brighton Place in Edinburgh is a pair of classical terraced houses designed by John Baxter of Portobello around 1824, with later alterations and additions. The building is two stories high with a basement and features seven bays, along with single-storey flanking pavilions that are slightly set back from the main elevation of No 42. Originally, these were mirrored pairs of three-bay houses, later extended by a bay to the southwest before 1856. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar that is deeply channelled at the ground level, with droved ashlar on the northeast wing and basement, squared sandstone on the southwest elevation, and rubble on the rear and northeast elevation. There are band courses between the basement and ground floor, as well as between the ground and first floor, along with a cill course to the first floor, a cornice, a blocking course, and coping on the wings.

The southeast (principal) elevation features three concrete steps leading to deep-set doors in the original outer bays, with plate glass rectangular fanlights and first-floor windows above. The intermediate bays contain additional windows, and the later bay has broader spacing with a window on each floor. The northeast wing has a window and a boarded door, while the southwest wing consists of three bays.

The northwest (rear) elevation is not fully visible as of 1994, with the second and fifth bays and the first floor of the seventh bay being blank. The pavilion to the southwest projects slightly and has a modern glazed door.

The principal elevation has plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the rear features various window types, including 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is made of grey slate with a piended design and a platform at the apex. The rear of No 42 has a harled wallhead stack, while No 44 has a sandstone and rendered wallhead to the northeast elevation, with a rendered and coped wallhead and a mutual stack at the rear and front.

Inside, the first-floor front room of No 42 has a chimneypiece, working shutters, and an exceptionally fine cornice. The ground floor flat of No 42 was not seen in 1994. No 44 features encaustic tiles in the hall, a wooden chimneypiece in the front room of the ground floor, original cornices, and fixed shutters in the top floor flat, along with a skylight in the stairwell.

The boundary walls consist of droved ashlar with coping at the front, squared rubble with coping on the side of No 44, and tall rubble garden walls at the rear.