42, 44, 46 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Brown, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 43-bay terraced tenement, Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Architraved 1st floor windows with cornices. Band course between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floor; cill course at 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpieces with 6-panel timber doors and radial semicircular fanlights in bays from right 3rd, 5th, 7th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 21st, and from left 3rd, 6th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 18th and 21st. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement.

E ELEVATION: coursed rubble; windows centred to all floors, except basement, with window to left of centre, small light to right of centre.

W ELEVATION: predominantly blank; window centred at principal floor, windows flanking centre at basement, corniced and pilastered doorpiece to outer left at basement, altered, with steps removed to lower height of door and fanlight.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble and rendered ridge stacks with broached quoins, rubble gablehead stacks with broached quoins; coped, with circular cans. Ashlar skew copes.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials.