12, 14 Scotland Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1801-4. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement. Mews to rear in West Scotland Street Lane, see below.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber doors with rectilinear rectangular fanlights, centred. and in penultimate bay from right at principal floor; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (16-18A Scotland Street).

S (SCOTLAND STREET LANE) ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable, predominantly blank.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Broached ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials.

MEWS:

11 WEST SCOTLAND STREET LANE: isolated 2-storey 5-bay mews building to E, comprising timber door in penultimate bay from right, at ground, 2-pane timber sash and case windows in remaining bays at ground. Pair of timber gabled dormer windows, breaking eaves at 1st floor, slate hung. Coped skews. Coped rubble wall to S, with vertically boarded timber door in pedestrian gate.