26 York Place, Edinburgh

26 York Place is a later 18th century, three-storey terraced classical house with an attic and basement. It is constructed of broached ashlar sandstone, featuring V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. The building has a base course, a band course between the basement and the principal floor, a frieze at the impost level, and a cornice at the principal floor. There is a cill course at the first floor, a band course between the first and second floors, and a mutulated cornice with a blocking course at the second floor. The windows are architraved with cornices at the first floor, with the central bay featuring a pediment; the second floor has architraved windows. The principal floor windows have projecting cills, and there are ashlar steps leading to an entrance platform that overhangs the basement.

On the south elevation, there is a round-arched recessed doorway in the left bay at the principal floor, which includes a four-panel timber door with a plate glass semicircular fanlight. The remaining bays at the principal floor have windows in round-arched recesses, while the upper floors and basement display regular fenestration. The basement area is flagged.

The west and east elevations are part of adjoining terraces, which are listed separately as 24 York Place and 28 York Place, respectively. The north (rear) elevation was not seen in 1998.

The house predominantly features two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and a polygonal piended slate-hung dormer. It has cast-iron rainwater goods, a rendered ridge stack that is coped with circular cans, and coped skews.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property also has railings and lamps, consisting of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed and urn finials, as well as cast-iron lamps mounted on the railings with glass globes.