Numbers 35 To 50 (Consecutive) With Railings To Front

This is a terrace of sixteen houses, with a return range to Hamilton Street, forming part of Hamilton Square. The houses were built between 1839 and 1844 to designs by James Gillespie Graham. They now serve commercial purposes. The terrace includes the property at 30A Hamilton Street.

The houses are three storeys high, with a basement and attic. They are arranged symmetrically, featuring outer pavilions and a stepped projecting central section of four bays. The end pavilions are emphasised by round-arched windows and granite piers to the doorcases on the left-hand side. Doric columns are engaged over the first and second storeys, supporting an entablature, with an attic storey divided by pilasters. Another entablature highlights the first-floor windows. The central bays feature Doric porches with full-height pilasters to the upper storeys and entablatures to the first-floor windows. The remaining houses have plain moulded architraves to the doorcases. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with cast-iron balconies featuring an acanthus motif on the first floor. A cornice is followed by an attic storey with a secondary cornice and blocking course.

The return elevation to Argyle Street is similarly detailed, with a 5-window range, lower round-arched windows and pilasters articulating the upper storeys. Cast-iron balconies are present in the right-hand three windows of the first floor. The return range to Hamilton Street (30A Hamilton Street) has a 3-window range with a central door and cast-iron balconies to the first-floor windows. The building features end wall and ridge stacks. Contemporary staircases and other features survive in some of the houses.

The terrace is part of an important example of formal town planning initiated by John Laird in 1825. No. 36 was previously listed on 24 August 1970.