9 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822, with later additions. 3-storey and basement, 23-bay classical terrace, comprising 15-bay central terrace, flanked by pair of advanced 4-bay terminal pavilions. Polished ashlar sandstone, V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze at impost level at principal floor of terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, CENTRAL TERRACE: 5 3-bay houses, with doors in bays to left at principal floor, comprising 4-panel timber doors, upper panels glazed at Nos 9 and 11, with plate glass rectangular fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above; architraved with cornices at 1st floor, architraved at 2nd floor, predominantly architraved at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area.

SE ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of 4-storey and basement, 4-bay terminal pavilions. Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floors. 4-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights in penultimate bay from right at No 7 and in penultimate bay from left at No 19, at principal floors, with radial semicircular fanlights. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floors; regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area

RANDOLPH CRESCENT RETURN TO W TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 9 Randolph Crescent (see separate listing).

AINSLIE PLACE RETURN TO E TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 15 Ainslie Place (see separate listing).

REAR ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows, multi-pane timber sash and case windows at No 9, and at 1st floor of No 11. Anthemion and palmette window guards at 1st floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials.