49, 51 London Street, Edinburgh

This is a substantial 1824 corner terrace on London Street, Edinburgh, designed by Thomas Bonnar, with later additions. It comprises three storeys and a basement, and presents a bowed, 13-bay classical facade at the prominent junction with a convex curved frontage. The building is constructed from polished ashlar sandstone with a base course, band courses between the basement and principal floor and the principal and first floors, a corniced frieze at the impost level of the principal floor, a corniced principal floor, cill courses at the first and second floors, and a cornice and blocking course at the second floor. Architraved windows are a feature of the first floor. Ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts define the basement level.

The main (northeast) elevation has 14 bays and includes a panelled timber common stair door. A shopfront occupies six bays to the right, with two-leaf multi-pane glazed doors and a vertically-boarded timber door. A later 19th-century public house addition (The Bellevue Bar, Nos 49-51) extends to the left of centre, featuring an advanced doorpiece, carriage lamps, and modern doors and windows. Further to the left is a two-bay Post Office with a glazed door and a plate glass semicircular fanlight, and a four-pane window with an umbrella semicircular fanlight. The upper floors display regular fenestration with architraved windows on the first floor. The basement incorporates various shop fronts with a mix of modern doors and windows.

The west elevation adjoins a separate terrace (1-41 London Street), and the south elevation connects to another terrace (68-76 Broughton Street).

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with a recessed polygonally piended dormer, a slate-hung box dormer, and three recessed tripartite corniced box dormers. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, and the rendered ridge stacks are coped with circular cans. The interiors were not inspected in 1998. Ashlar copes top cast-iron railings with decorative balusters and finials.