7 Walker Street, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1822-24. 12 bay terrace comprising unified façade of 2-storey attics and basements, 3-bay classical townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; later ashlar attic additions; 3-bay return to William Street. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved to basement, channelled to raised ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course. Banded cill course to 1st floor, string course between windows. Corniced eaves course, balustraded with rectangular dormers to right. Timber 6-panel doors with rectangular fanlight above; geometric glazing to No. 9. Architraved, corniced and bracketed 1st floor window to centre at N corner block. Cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets to first floor windows.

N (WILLIAM STREET) ELEVATION: 3 storeys, regular coursed rubble with long and short ashlar quoins (stone cills and lintels). Window to centre at ground 1st and 2nd floors.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-storey. Regular coursed rubble with some long and short ashlar quoins. Advanced and recessed wall plane with some later additions. Ashlar rybats, lintels and sills to irregular fenestration.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case, with some 12-pane and 6-over 9-pane timber sash and case windows. Cast-iron railings above ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street; spear headed finials. Double pitch M-section roof. Wallhead stacks in corniced ashlar with modern clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.