20, 22 Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Later 18th century. 3-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay tenement on sloping site. Random rubble with dressed margins. Regular fenestration.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to ground floor, timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight to centre; flanking window to left with cast iron balconnette, recess for basement window below. To 1st floor, timber-panelled door with 4-light letterbox fanlight, flanked by window to left and right. Canted tripartite dormer to roof, flanked left and right by piended dormers.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 piended dormers to roof.

W ELEVATION: only upper elevation visible, remainder obscured by No. 16-18 adjoining (see separate List description). To left, window to 1st and 2nd floors; smaller window above.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to side sections of canted dormer. Dormers have timber fascias with grey slate haffits and roofs. Pitched roof; graded grey slate, stone skews and skewputts. 2 rendered gablehead stacks with circular cans to W gable.

BOUNDARY WALLS: S elevation is approached by stone flagged ramp. Access to No 20 between 2 ashlar gatepiers with cornice and pyramidal cap; platt flanked by cast iron railings to left, harled wall to right; teps to door with cast iron railings and hand rail. No 22 is approached by 2 stages of stone steps; harled wall to left, rubble to right; to left ashlar gatepier with square cap; wrought iron overthrow; stone copings and cast iron railings surmounting both walls. N (rear) elevation: rubble wall encloses garden on all 3 sides.