4 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1874-1878. 3-storey with basement 2-bay terraced townhouses with 2-storey canted bays. Polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved at basement. Banded cill course to ground and 1st floor windows; string course and brackets to cornice. Elaborately consoled cornice to doorpieces, with ironwork balcony to 1st floor window above; canted ironwork balcony to 2nd floor window above canted bay; moulded margins, with bracketed block cills at 2nd floor.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door to centre at basement with small window to left beneath oversailing platt; window to central face of canted bay at right; ashlar steps and entrance platt approach to panelled timber door with large rectangular fanlight to doorpiece to bay to left at ground of each house; single window to 1st and 2nd floor above; lights to each face of canted bay at ground and 1st floors, bay to right; tripartite window to bay to outer right at 2nd floor.

2- and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; coped mutual sandstone ashlar stacks (rendered stack to Nos 4 and 6), with tall moulded cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys railings to entrance platts and, set in coping, to street.