12, 14 Scotland Street, Edinburgh

12 and 14 Scotland Street is a terraced tenement building in Edinburgh, designed by architects Robert Reid and William Sibbald between 1801 and 1804. It stands four storeys high with a basement, featuring a fifth storey as a wallhead attic. The building is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication on the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal floor and the first floor. The first and second floor windows have projecting cills, and there are cornices at both the second and third floors. The entrance features ashlar steps and platts that extend over the basement.

On the east elevation, there are six-panel timber doors with rectangular fanlights, located centrally and in the penultimate bay from the right on the principal floor. The remaining bays on the principal floor have windows, with regular fenestration on the floors above and in the basement. The basement area is flagged.

The north elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (16-18A Scotland Street). The south elevation, facing Scotland Street Lane, has a predominantly blank coursed rubble gable.

The building features predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate M-roof. The ridge and gablehead stacks are made of broached ashlar and are coped, with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters.

The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials.

To the east, in West Scotland Street Lane, there is an isolated two-storey, five-bay mews building. This mews has a timber door in the penultimate bay from the right at ground level, and the remaining bays at ground level feature 2-pane timber sash and case windows. There are also a pair of timber gabled dormer windows that break the eaves at the first floor, and the building is slate hung with coped skews. A coped rubble wall to the south has a vertically boarded timber door in a pedestrian gate.