28, 30, 32 Elder Street, Edinburgh

1. 3-storey, attic and basement, 7-bay near-symmetrical classical terraced tenement on corner site. Broached ashlar sandstone. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, and between principal and 1st floors; cornice at impost level flanking doorpiece centred at principal floor; cill course at 1st floor; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Projecting cills at principal and 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: recessed round-arched doorpiece centred at principal floor, with 6-panel timber door and blind semicircular fanlight, surmounted by keystone, flanked to left by advanced pilastered doorpiece with corniced lintel, 6-panel timber door and 2-pane rectangular fanlight; flanked to right by advanced pilastered former doorpiece (No 36, now closed) with corniced lintel, part-infilled with window; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, with wall-mounted shop trade sign between windows in penultimate bay from left and at outer left, comprising painted stylised spectacles; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining building, see separate listing (21 York Place).

S ELEVATION: blank rendered gable.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Pair of slate-hung rectangular dormers; slate-hung tripartite rectangular dormer to right. Modern skylights. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

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