4 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

This is a four-storey and basement tenement, built in 1807 by Robert Reid and William Sibbald as part of a terrace on Dundas Street in Edinburgh. The building is constructed from finely finished, rusticated ashlar sandstone, with vertical joints creating a textured appearance on the main floor. A band course separates the principal and second floors, and projecting cills accentuate the first and second-floor windows. A continuous cornice sits above the second floor, while a further cornice and blocking course mark the top of the third floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts project from the basement level.

The principal (east) elevation features advanced shop fronts, particularly prominent in the central section (at No. 6, Bourne Fine Art) which extends over three bays and is two storeys high. A two-leaf glazed door is located to the left of this shop front, and the principal floor windows are plate glass with an elliptical upper pane. The first-floor windows have segmental arched lower panes and an elliptical upper pane pattern. Decorative pilasters are placed between the windows, featuring gilded cornices and trailing husk motifs supporting the entablature. The principal floor has a consoled and dentilled cornice, while the first floor has a dentilled console. The basement shop front includes a door and regular window placement. A timber common stair door, with a blind fanlight featuring a painted radial pattern, is found in the fourth bay from the right. A round-arched doorpiece with a flush panelled door and radial semicircular fanlight is present in the third bay from the left. A shop front spanning two bays is advanced at the outer left (No. 4, Malcolm Innes Gallery), with a recessed glazed doorpiece, decorative fanlight, flanked by plate glass windows with glazing to the north and south returns, pilasters, gilded decoration, a dentilled cornice, and a blocking course. The remaining bays on the principal floor, and those to the outer right of the basement, retain regular fenestration, with predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows.

The north elevation adjoins the terrace at 12-16 Dundas Street (listed separately), and the south elevation adjoins the terrace at 1-19 Heriot Row (also listed separately).

The roof is covered with grey slate and features cast-iron rainwater goods. Ridges stacks are of broached ashlar, coped and finished with circular cans. Railings to the front consist of ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials, and include railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.

Interiors were unexamined in 1997, but evidence suggests the original working panelled shutters remain.