23, 25, 27, 27A India Street, Edinburgh

23, 25, 27, and 27A India Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century classical tenement designed by William and Lewis A Wallace. This four-storey building with a basement features a nine-bay façade constructed from polished sandstone ashlar. The principal floor showcases V-pointed rustication, while the basement is finished with broached ashlar. There is a band course at the principal floor level, a cill course on the first and second floors, a cornice at the second floor, and a blocking course at the top. The entrance includes ashlar steps and platts that extend over the basement.

On the west elevation, the principal entrance is a flush-panelled common stair door located at the centre of the principal floor, flanked by windows. There are also flush-panelled doors in the third bays from the left and right, with windows in the outer bays. The upper floors have a regular arrangement of windows. Notable features include good cast-iron window guards with anthemion and palmette designs on the first floor of No 27, and cast-iron guards on the fourth floor of Nos 23 and 27. The basement area is flagged, with coped rubble walls and vertically boarded timber doors leading to the cellars. The north elevation is obscured by the adjoining terrace at 1-25 Royal Crescent.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate in an M-shape, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. The ridge stacks are rendered and broached ashlar, with a rubble gablehead stack topped with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The property is also adorned with ashlar copes topped by cast-iron railings featuring fleur-de-lis balusters and quasi-Maltese cross finials. Additionally, there are cast-iron lamps mounted on the railings with glass globes.