22 Broughton Street, Edinburgh

This is a four-storey, seven-bay terraced tenement built in 1810 on Broughton Street, Edinburgh. The building is part of a larger group, with the two bays to the right stepped down and a bowed corner bay marking the outer right. The principal elevation is faced with broached ashlar, while the north-east (rear) elevation is of coursed rubble with tooled dressings. A cornice and blocking course run along the third floor.

The north-east elevation features a thirteen-bay ground floor, with several shopfronts incorporated. The fourth bay from the left has a timber entrance door with a three-pane rectangular fanlight, flanked by a three-bay shopfront with a bracketed, dentilled cornice. This shopfront features a recessed glazed door with a blind rectangular fanlight, flanked by plate glass windows with glazed returns. To the right is a two-bay shopfront with a similar cornice, containing a recessed glazed door with a plate glass rectangular fanlight and a plate glass window with a tiled base and glazed return. A timber door with a fanlight is also present in the fourth bay from the right, accompanied by a modern shopfront to the left and a four-bay shopfront to the right, incorporating a recessed glazed door, two-pane windows, and a two-pane window in the bowed corner bay. Regular fenestration is found on the floors above.

The north-west elevation, which becomes number 22 Broughton Street, is eight bays wide, with the three bays to the right stepped upwards. Timber doors with three-pane rectangular fanlights are located in the penultimate bay from the right and the fifth bay from the right. Other ground floor bays have windows. There are infill and blind windows in other positions, and regular fenestration to the upper floors.

The south-west (rear) elevation consists of a stugged and squared sandstone gable. The south-east elevation adjoins a separate terrace building and is covered under a separate listing.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate. Rendered ridge and wallhead stacks are topped with circular cans, and a stugged and squared sandstone gablehead stack has a corniced and coped finish with circular cans.

Interior inspection was unavailable in 1998, but evidence suggests the presence of working panelled shutters. A stugged and squared rubble boundary wall is located to the right of the north-west elevation, incorporating a segmental-arched opening with a vertically-boarded timber gate and a coped top.