4, 6 Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh

Edward Calvert, 1887-90. Terrace of 6 tenement blocks with Scottish 17th century detail, 5-storey, 5-bay; cream sandstone, coursed and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings; full-height canted windows corbelled to square in triangular or shaped gableheaded dormers; T-section panelled and corniced wallhead stacks, corbelled from 2nd floor; carved aprons to 2nd floor windows, except Nos 4 and 6); chamfered reveals; roundel or diamond-shaped motifs and horizontal ashlar and rubble banding on wallhead stacks; panelled doors (except Nos 16, 18) with square border glazed fanlights.

SW (BRUNTSFIELD AVENUE) ELEVATION: each block comprising of full-height canted windows in outer bays; single windows in bays to centre; door to common stair in central bay; corbelled wallhead stack above; 4th floor windows with either shaped or pedimented dormerheads (except Nos 16 and 18 where 4th floor windows flank wallhead stack with scrolled shoulder above). Exceptions: Nos 20 1st and 2nd floor cill course with diamond-shaped label-stops. Nos 4 and 6 paired doors off centre in bay left of centre, 1st and 2nd floor cill course; incised lintels to 2nd floor windows; wallhead stack with moulded coping bracketted from above 2nd floor; oval concave panel in gabled dormerheads. Nos 8 and 10 and Nos 12 and 14 paired doors off-centre in bay right of centre, 1 door in bay left of centre; at ground floor single window off-centre in central bay; Nos 8 and 10 wallhead stack with moulded coping; Nos 10 and 12 cope missing. Plate glass timber sash and case windows, slate mansard roof, wallhead and mutual stacks (see above); moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Low boundary walls, cast-iron railings remain at Nos 8, 12, 14a and 18.