43 Moray Place, Edinburgh

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822. 4-storey and basement, 23-bay symmetrical classical palace block with 3-part in-canted frontage, comprising advanced 9-bay central pavilion, flanked by pair of 3-bay houses flanked in turn by splayed pair of 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 central and terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st floor; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, CENTRAL PAVILION: advanced 9-bay central pavilion, with central 3 bays and outer bays advanced again. Central 3 bays and outer bays flanked by engaged Doric columns at 1st and 2nd floors; central 3 bays surmounted by blank pediment. 4-panel timber door with plate glass semicircular fanlight in bay to right of centre, 4-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights in bays at outer left and right; windows in round-arched recesses in bay at centre and left of centre; regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above, with blank bay centred at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area.

NE ELEVATION, LINKING TERRACES: pair of 3-bay houses (Nos 38 and 42), comprising 4-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights, in bays flanking central pavilion; windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Windows architraved with cornices at 1st floor; windows architraved at 2nd floor. No 42 raised to 4-storey. Flagged basement area.

NE ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of advanced 4-bay terminal pavilions; Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floor. 4-panel timber doors in penultimate bays from left; door at No 37 with plate glass semicircular fanlight, door at No 43 with radial semicircular fanlight. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area.

GREAT STUART STREET RETURN TO N TERMINAL PAVILION: 5-bay, becoming No 2 Great Stuart Street (see separate listing).

FORRES STREET RETURN TO S TERMINAL PAVILION: 5-bay, becoming 10 Forres Street (see separate listing).

Variety of timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roofs. Pair of slate-hung box dormers to No 38. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Anthemion and palmette window guards in bays at 1st floor. Variety of ridge and wallhead stacks; coped with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.