28, 30, 32 Elder Street, Edinburgh

28, 30, 32 Elder Street is a classical terraced tenement building from 1800, featuring three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a near-symmetrical seven-bay design located on a corner site. The exterior is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with a base course and band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors. A cornice at the impost level frames a central doorpiece on the principal floor, while a cill course is present at the first floor and a mutuled cornice with a blocking course is at the second floor. The building has projecting cills at both the principal and second floors, and ashlar steps lead to entrance platts that overhang the basement.

On the eastern elevation, there is a recessed round-arched doorpiece at the principal floor, which features a six-panel timber door and a blind semicircular fanlight above, topped with a keystone. To the left, there is an advanced pilastered doorpiece with a corniced lintel, a six-panel timber door, and a two-pane rectangular fanlight. To the right, there is a former doorpiece (No 36, now closed) with a corniced lintel, partly infilled with a window. The remaining bays on the principal floor have windows, with a wall-mounted shop trade sign between the windows in the penultimate bay from the left and at the outer left, displaying painted stylised spectacles. The upper floors and basement have regular fenestration, and the basement area is flagged.

The northern elevation is adjacent to another building, which is listed separately (21 York Place). The southern elevation features a blank rendered gable. The western (rear) elevation was not seen in 1998.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and a pair of slate-hung rectangular dormers, along with a slate-hung tripartite rectangular dormer to the right. There are modern skylights, cast-iron rainwater goods, and a rendered ridge stack that is coped with circular cans. The skews are also coped.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed and urn finials.